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| | | Date | Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:25:38 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [RFC V4 PATCH 00/15] Signature verification of hibernate snapshot |
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, David Howells wrote:
> I have pushed some keyrings patches that will likely affect this to: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=keys-devel > > I intend to ask James to pull these into his next branch. If he's happy to do > so, I can look at pulling at least your asymmetric keys patch on top of them.
This suggests a point that I raised at the Linux Plumbers conference:
Why are asymmetric keys used for verifying the hibernation image? It seems that a symmetric key would work just as well. And it would be a lot quicker to generate, because it wouldn't need any high-precision integer computations.
Alan Stern
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