Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MODSIGN: Change default key details [ver #2] | From | Mimi Zohar <> | Date | Mon, 18 May 2015 22:14:52 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 12:13 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 11:47 +0100, David Howells wrote: > > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> > You could make it so that the make process picks up .pem files and converts > > them to DER-encoded .x509 files. > > I don't actually care whether it's PEM or DER form per se. What I > really care about is the horrid trick of automatically finding the > files to be included with a wildcard, and pulling them into the build. > > That would be icky enough if we *weren't* going to *trust* the things!
Agreed! There's no reason for having them in the root of the build tree.
> With a PEM file it's common to have multiple certs in a single file, > and you could have a simple config option for the 'additional certs' > file which explicitly pulls it in. Rather than the current hack.
> Doing that with multiple certs in the same file in DER form, if that > works, would also be tolerable. Although it's less normal to have a > file in that format.
Either method would be preferable.
Mimi
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