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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] X.509: Fix certificate gathering again
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On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 10:58 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > > The only issue is that the makefile expressions are a bit hairy. For
> > > starters, we already have definitions for $(quote) and $(space) in
> > > kbuild. I'll have a closer look at the config_filename macro and try to
> > > simplify it somehow. But it's just cosmetics, the patch can be merged as
> > > is for now.
> >
> > I've actually changed my mind about the 'awk | base64 -d' bit. The error
> > handling is too poor. I'd like to do that in C with a variant of the
> > existing extract_cert tool, and make sure we have proper X.509
> > certificates and error handling/reporting.
>
> You could also do it in perl pretty easily.

It's a fairly trivial change to scripts/extract-cert.c though, which
gives you validation of the cert ASN.1 instead of just base64-decoding
and importing arbitrary crap as long as it's found between
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Yeah, we could do the X.509 parsing/validation in perl too. But let's
not.

--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation



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