Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:32:13 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/16] Crypto keys and module signing [ver #2] |
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On 11/29/2011 03:42 PM, David Howells wrote: > > I have provided a couple of subtypes: DSA and RSA. Both types have signature > verification facilities available within the kernel, and both can be used for > module signature verification with any encryption algorithm known by the PGP > parser, provided the appropriate algorithm is compiled directly into the > kernel. >
Do we really need the complexity of a full OpenPGP parser? Parsers are notorious security problems. Furthermore, using DSA in anything but a hard legacy application is not something you want to encourage, so why support DSA?
-hpa
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