From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263263AbTD0CMg (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:12:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263269AbTD0CMg (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:12:36 -0400 Received: from abraham.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.37.170]:34834 "EHLO mx2.cypherpunks.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263263AbTD0CMb (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:12:31 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! Date: 27 Apr 2003 01:59:02 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: isaac Message-ID: References: <20030424201522.G1425@almesberger.net> <20030426223144.A14843@almesberger.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mozart.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: abraham.cs.berkeley.edu 1051408742 9760 128.32.153.211 (27 Apr 2003 01:59:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Apr 2003 01:59:02 GMT X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test74 (May 26, 2000) Originator: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Werner Almesberger wrote: >Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Redhat's kernel is unlikely to get my signature. Possibly >> at some point there will be a web of trust where that will work >> but in the first approximation distributors kernels will not >> load until I sign them. > >Yes, that's exactly the "good" kind of DRM. Semantic quibbling: Actually, no, I don't think it is. That's not DRM at all, good or bad. It's just plain old signatures, web of trust, etc. Not everything that uses crypto or code signing is DRM. (We're really getting off-topic now, I suppose.)