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    SubjectRe: Firmware signing -- Re: [PATCH 00/27] security, efi: Add kernel lockdown
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    On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 14:09 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:44 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > Whilst that may be true, we either have to check signatures on every bit of
    > > firmware that the appropriate driver doesn't say is meant to be signed or not
    > > bother.
    >
    > I vote for "not bother".
    >
    > Seriously, if you have firmware in /lib/firmware, and you don't trust
    > it, what the hell are you doing?

    I might "trust" the files in /lib/firmware, but I also want to make
    sure that they haven't changed.  File signatures provide file
    provenance and integrity guarantees.

    Mimi

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