From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>,
"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net>,
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Subject: Re: Linux Firmware Signing
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:45:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1441039536.2647.73.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441037120.4453.93.camel@infradead.org>
On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 17:05 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 10:18 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > I'm not real happy about it, but since we can't break the existing ABI
> > of loading data into the kernel via a buffer, a stop gap method of
> > signing and verifying a buffer would be needed.
>
> Actually I think we can. The usermode helper is already being phased
> out.
Right. The discussion has moved beyond just firmware, but to policies
and other things the kernel consumes.
Mimi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-31 16:45 UTC|newest]
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2015-08-26 23:26 ` Linux Firmware Signing Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-27 2:35 ` Paul Moore
2015-08-27 19:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-27 23:46 ` Paul Moore
2015-08-27 10:38 ` David Howells
2015-08-27 10:57 ` David Woodhouse
2015-08-27 21:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-27 23:54 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-08-29 2:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-31 14:18 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-08-31 16:05 ` David Woodhouse
2015-08-31 16:45 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2015-09-02 0:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-01 23:43 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-02 3:08 ` Kees Cook
2015-09-02 3:44 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-09-02 15:28 ` Kees Cook
2015-09-02 16:45 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-09-02 17:36 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-02 23:54 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-09-03 0:18 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-08-27 23:56 ` Paul Moore
2015-08-28 11:20 ` Roberts, William C
2015-08-28 22:26 ` Paul Moore
2015-08-29 2:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-01 2:52 ` Paul Moore
2015-09-01 14:12 ` Joshua Brindle
2015-09-01 20:08 ` Roberts, William C
2015-09-01 20:46 ` Joshua Brindle
2015-09-01 22:21 ` Eric Paris
2015-08-29 1:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-01 20:20 ` Kees Cook
2015-09-02 0:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-02 3:35 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-09-02 18:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-02 20:54 ` Kees Cook
2015-09-02 21:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 21:14 ` Kees Cook
2015-09-30 20:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 0:05 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-09-03 0:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 3:00 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-08-27 19:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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