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SubjectRe: RFC: sign the modules at install time
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
>> > (Side note: I hope people realize that the random key is generated
>> > with a 100-year lifespan. So if you build a kernel today, you do
>> > potentially have a "year-2112 problem". I'm not horribly worried, but
>> > I *am* a bit worried about 32-bit time_t overflow and I hope 32-bit
>> > openssl doesn't do anything odd)
>>
>> Yep, David's original patch had that problem; he fixed the kernel's x509
>> handling to use struct tm, not time_t, and now it Just Works.
>
> That's assuming that 32-bit *openssl* gets it right when generating the key.

Yes, I am assuming that. What openssl did you think I ran on my 32-bit
kernel? :)

Cheers,
Rusty.


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