From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754059Ab2IRSqx (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:46:53 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:35203 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750862Ab2IRSqs (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:46:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:51:15 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: David Howells Cc: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, pjones@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, zohar@us.ibm.com, dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder Message-ID: <20120918195115.6ddcf5fc@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <13189.1347989652@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <20120914103930.1e16ad8b@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20120913234802.3575.77103.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20120913235005.3575.46218.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <13189.1347989652@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:34:12 +0100 David Howells wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > Why do this in the kernel.That appears to be completely insane. > > A number of reasons: > > (1) The UEFI signature/key database may contain ASN.1 X.509 certificates and > we may need to use those very early in the boot process, during initrd. Ok that makes some sense. Presumably they've also got to fall within what you trust and sign ? Alan