Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:56:44 -0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:25:47AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> - why do you bother with the MS keysigning of Linux kernel modules to >> begin with? > > This is not actually what the patchset implements. All it's done here > is using PE files as envelopes for keys. The usage this enables is to > allow for whoever makes a module (binary only or merely out of tree for > whatever reason) to sign it and vouch for it themselves. That could > include, for example, a systemtap module.
Umm. And which part of "We already support that, using standard X.509 certificates" did we suddenly miss?
So no. The PE file thing makes no sense what-so-ever. What you mention we can already do, and we already do it *better*.
Linus
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