From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Emily Maier <emilymaier@mykolab.com>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] kernel build: enable use of password-protected signing keys
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:51:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F8D94D.4040307@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52F8034B.8080303@mykolab.com>
On 9.2.2014 23:38, Emily Maier wrote:
> Currently, the module signing script assumes that the private key is
> not password-protected. This patch makes it slightly more secure by
> allowing it to be passed in on the command line as "make
> modules_install MOD_PASSWORD=abc". It's vulnerable to snooping during
> the build of course, but so is an unprotected signing key.
The key's permissions can be set to 0600, while the make commandline is
visible in ps.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-10 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-09 22:38 [PATCH RFC] kernel build: enable use of password-protected signing keys Emily Maier
2014-02-10 13:51 ` Michal Marek [this message]
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2014-02-13 10:21 ` Michal Marek
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