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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:25:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2201.1350645923@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121019142147.76f67505862afe5614167428@canb.auug.org.au>

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> So, this still generates the keys during the normal build, right?  That
> would be a problem for build servers that have limited randomness
> available to them, I think.

openssl uses /dev/urandom (unlike gpg), so that's less of a problem.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-19 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-17 20:36 RFC: sign the modules at install time Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 22:19 ` David Howells
2012-10-17 22:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18  0:54     ` Greg KH
2012-10-18  3:14       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18  3:18         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18  4:34         ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18 17:16           ` Greg KH
2012-10-18  4:31     ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18 12:11       ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-18 16:29         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-19  0:20           ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19 11:21             ` David Howells
2012-10-21 23:51               ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-20 16:41           ` Romain Francoise
2012-10-20 16:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 22:26 ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-17 23:07   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 23:20     ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-17 23:25       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 23:44         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18  0:06           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 23:21     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18  0:13       ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-18  4:41       ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18  1:17 ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18  3:27   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18  5:34     ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-18 18:46       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-18 19:58         ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-19  0:48           ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19 11:44             ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-19  1:16           ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19 11:49             ` Josh Boyer
2012-10-19  1:23         ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19  3:21           ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-19 11:25             ` David Howells [this message]
2012-10-19 11:30               ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-19 11:40               ` Alexander Holler
2012-10-20  3:53             ` Rusty Russell
2012-10-19 19:58           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-19 22:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-22  0:28               ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-10-18 21:31 George Spelvin

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