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Message-ID: <1432058889.3277.73.camel@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 19:08:09 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Abelardo Ricart III <aricart@...nix.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?

On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 10:58 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> Throwing away the key is outright impossible in some contexts.
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Are any of the benefits described at
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About *not* just as
achievable with the method I suggested — where you throw away the key
and just validate that your builds are identical *except* for the
signatures... which you can reuse, since your builds were identical.

-- 
dwmw2


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