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SubjectRe: Fw: signed kernel modules?
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 23:36 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > No. I still don't know, why the kernel has to do this? You avoided to
> > answer this question already before.
>
> Partly to protect against accidentally-corrupted modules causing damage.

OK, so why no integrity-checking code for the kernel itself? Surely it too
could be accidentally corrupted...


--Chuck Ebbert 15-Oct-04 11:13:15
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