linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702141121030.20368@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:26:26 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, herbert.xu@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davej@...hat.com,
	arjan@...radead.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing 

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, David Howells wrote:
>
>  (1) A cut-down MPI library derived from GPG with error handling added.

Do we really need to add this?

Wouldn't it be much nicer to just teach people to use one of the existing 
signature things that we need for _other_ cases anyway, and already have 
merged?

(Of course, it's possible that none of the current crypto supports any 
signature checking at all - I didn't actually look. In which case my 
argument is pointless).

		Linus
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