Bug#956922: ITP: fsverity -- Userspace utilities for fs-verity

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:18 PM Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com>
>
> * Package name    : fsverity
>   Version         : 1.0
>   Upstream Author : Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> * URL             : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/fsverity-utils.git
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : Userspace utilities for fs-verity
>
> This is fsverity, a userspace utility for fs-verity. fs-verity is a Linux kernel
> feature that does transparent on-demand integrity/authenticity verification of
> the contents of read-only files, using a hidden Merkle tree (hash tree) associated
> with the file. The mechanism is similar to dm-verity, but implemented at the file
> level rather than at the block device level. The fsverity utility allows you to
> set up fs-verity protected files.
>
> This package will be helpful for handling the fsverity feature on a file from
> userspace.
>
> I want to maintain this package. As DM, I need someone for the initial upload.
> Packaging is currently hosted here https://salsa.debian.org/rperier-guest/fsverity,
> and will be developed at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fsverity

I can. Do you plan also to support it under debian install (maybe also
dm-verify/dm-integrity)

Bastien