UEFI image signing

Bug #1016594 reported by Colin Watson
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Launchpad itself
Fix Released
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Colin Watson

Bug Description

As per https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035445.html, we need to implement support for publishing signed UEFI boot loaders. This will require:

 * installing Jeremy Kerr's sbsigntool utility on dogfood/staging?/production
 * generating a throwaway key for dogfood so that we can QA
 * installing the official Ubuntu UEFI signing key on production
 * landing a patch to add a new custom upload format, which is signed during publication

Given the value of signed UEFI images, we also want to ensure that uploads containing a UEFI image tarball are never auto-approved, but always require manual approval by an archive admin. (This approach has been agreed with the security team.)

Tags: qa-ok

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Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
status: New → In Progress
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Currently having some difficulty QAing this, as sbsign only handles amd64 images and dogfood only has an i386 builder attached right now.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I hacked around this by including an amd64 binary from production in the source package (since it wasn't the build process I needed to test). Once I got the details right, all looks good now.

tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Maxim Kammerer (mkdesu) wrote :

@cjwatson: In case you are interested, I have added i386 support to sbsigntool, see the following patch:
https://github.com/mkdesu/liberte/blob/master/src/usr/local/portage/app-crypt/sbsigntool/files/sbsigntool-0.3-support-i386.patch

(also sent an email to jeremy Kerr)

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