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SubjectRe: [PATCH 14/16] X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
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
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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>


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