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Re: [GIT PULL] MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 for module signatures

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [GIT PULL] MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 for module signatures
Date 2015-07-28 11:10 +0200
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Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> How would it cause kexec problems?  I can only see it being a problem
> if Authenticode can't handle authattrs, right?  There shouldn't be any
> legacy PKCS7 kexec images whatsoever, because no existing kernel will
> boot them or generate them.

I was wondering if it is possible to get an mscode message that doesn't have
authattrs in it.  I guess we can just ignore the possibility until the matter
arises, if it does, and deal with it then as appropriate.

David
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Re: [GIT PULL] MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 for module signatures David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-07-28 00:50 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 for module signatures Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-07-28 01:20 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 for module signatures David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-07-28 11:10 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 for module signatures David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2015-07-28 11:20 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 for module signatures David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-07-28 11:30 +0200

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