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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	petkan@mip-labs.com, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 23:21:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24864.1432333288@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUa5u1y64afS1yECDm=-Xpi6uFQqUmJFxpj8AaFur3OSA@mail.gmail.com>

Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> > Since it's discarded at the end of boot, it could be padded significantly.
> 
> If you use the hash tree approach, the size of the thing in bzImage is
> constant.

Given that bzImage is usually compressed, a whole slew of contiguous zero
padding is also constant in size.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-22 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-21 23:54 George Spelvin
2015-05-22  0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22  0:10   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 14:13   ` George Spelvin
2015-05-22 20:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 20:44       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 21:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 22:18         ` David Howells
2015-05-22 22:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-22 22:15     ` David Howells
2015-05-22 22:19       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 22:21       ` David Howells [this message]
2015-05-22  0:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-22 12:42   ` George Spelvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-18 16:04 David Howells
2015-05-18 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-18 16:22   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-18 16:55     ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-18 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19  0:51   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19  7:42     ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 17:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 17:58       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 18:08         ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:12           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:38             ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:49               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 20:00                 ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 20:05                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 20:25                     ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 18:44           ` David Howells
2015-05-19 19:01             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 16:10             ` David Howells
2015-05-21 16:50               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-23 20:37       ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-20  5:01     ` Rusty Russell
2015-05-19  8:53   ` David Howells
2015-05-19 12:46     ` David Woodhouse
2015-05-19 12:52     ` David Howells
2015-05-19 14:36     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 15:37       ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 15:53         ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-19 17:17         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 15:30     ` David Howells
2015-05-19 15:55       ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-19 16:09         ` Petko Manolov
2015-05-19 17:32         ` Mimi Zohar
2015-05-19 17:43           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 17:53             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-19 16:23       ` David Howells
2015-05-19 17:55         ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-19 18:10         ` David Howells
2015-05-19 21:47         ` Jiri Kosina
2015-05-20  7:45           ` Michal Marek
2015-05-20  7:47         ` Michal Marek
2015-05-19 17:17       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:38       ` David Howells
2015-05-19 18:46         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 18:50         ` David Howells
2015-05-19 18:57         ` David Howells
2015-05-19 19:06           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 15:59           ` David Howells

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