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SubjectRe: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:10:48 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 05:03:34PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:55:04 +0100 (CET)
> > Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > Prepare (as a root) a hand-crafted image, reboot, let the kernel resume
> > > from that artificial image.
> >
> > It's not signed. It won't reboot from that image.
>
> The kernel is signed. The kernel doesn't check the signature on the
> suspend image.

Which doesn't matter. How are you going to create the tampered image in
the first place ?


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