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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] booting signed Images
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 19:55:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140505175504.9FE723809DA@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ2-qC8YK8t2DvmzXWKy3Wd+=7VY1Ti=Jm98LF96PLfu-g@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Simon,

In message <CAPnjgZ2-qC8YK8t2DvmzXWKy3Wd+=7VY1Ti=Jm98LF96PLfu-g@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> > Should we not prevent booting uImages or not signed FIT Images when
> > CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is defined?
> > Or at least prevent booting such unsigned images through an U-Boot
> > env variable.
> >
> > What Do you think?
> 
> There is a 'required' property in the public keys which is intended to
> support this. If you mark a key as 'required then it will need to be
> verified by any image that is loaded. There is a test for this case,
> but it may not be comprehensive.

But what about legacy uImage files?  It appears nothing would stop
booting one of those?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-05 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-05  7:35 [U-Boot] booting signed Images Heiko Schocher
2014-05-05 17:25 ` Simon Glass
2014-05-05 17:55   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2014-05-05 18:31     ` Simon Glass
2014-05-05 19:19       ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-05-07  7:06       ` Heiko Schocher
2014-05-07 22:51         ` Simon Glass

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