Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:17:47 +1000 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/16] X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:34:12 +0100 > David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > Why do this in the kernel.That appears to be completely insane. > > > > A number of reasons: > > > > (1) The UEFI signature/key database may contain ASN.1 X.509 certificates and > > we may need to use those very early in the boot process, during initrd. > > Ok that makes some sense.
I'd like to see some serious effort at code review and testing before this code is merged.
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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