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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] module: search the key only by keyid
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On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 23:44 +1100, James Morris wrote: 
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, David Howells wrote:
>
> > Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com> wrote:
> >
> > > BTW. But actually why signer is needed to find the key?
> > > Every key has unique fingerprint.
> >
> > The SKID is by no means guaranteed unique, is not mandatory and has no defined
> > algorithm for generating it.
> >
> > > Or you say that different certificates might have the same PK?
> > > What I would consider strange. But anyway, if PK is the same, then
> > > verification succeed.
> >
> > Do note: We *do* need to get away from using SKIDs. We have situations where
> > we have to use a key that doesn't have one.
> >
>
> David, I need to push to Linus for 3.17 -- please finalize the fix for
> this and send me a pull request.

Thanks Dmitry, David. Everything now seems to be working properly with
the patchset David posted today.

Mimi



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