Re: Integrity checks for Mac kernel extensions
Re: Integrity checks for Mac kernel extensions
- Subject: Re: Integrity checks for Mac kernel extensions
- From: Ken Hornstein <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:19:30 -0400
>I would like to perform self integrity checks (validate against a known
>hash value) for my kernel extensions when they gets loaded into the memory.
>Since i can't access files from the kernel extension, what is the best way
>of achieving this within kernel extesions?
You CAN read files from kernel extensions. The API exists. Some say that
it's is very hard to use, but I personally didn't have a problem with it.
I wouldn't want to do a lot of complicated stuff, but if you just need to
read a file it should be doable.
--Ken
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