From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Emily Maier <emilymaier@mykolab.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: enable use of password-protected signing keys
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:33:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53232F51.3000404@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FD4E8F.2030905@mykolab.com>
On 2014-02-14 00:00, Emily Maier wrote:
> Currently, the module signing script assumes that the private key is
> not password-protected. This patch makes it somewhat more secure by
> checking of a password file ("signing_key.pass") exists and passing it
> to OpenSSL if so.
I doubt that this makes the key any more secure.
Michal
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2014-02-13 23:00 [PATCH v2] kbuild: enable use of password-protected signing keys Emily Maier
2014-03-14 16:33 ` Michal Marek [this message]
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