From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODSIGN without RTC?
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:44:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1U3WSI-00023L-QG@bigred.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5112FE21.4020404@ahsoftware.de>
> Another option would be to make a configure option to just ignore the
> date. I'm not sure if I would like to use MODSIGN when I have to fear
> that the machine wouldn't start when the RTC fails or got set to a wrong
> date.
Or just ignore the date unconditionally. After all, when a certificate
check fails due to out-of-validity-period, then you can always "fix"
that by appropriately setting the clock. So for security, in this
application, the date check is outright useless.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-07 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-06 23:42 Alexander Holler
2013-02-07 1:06 ` Alexander Holler
2013-02-07 6:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-02-07 7:01 ` Alexander Holler
2013-02-07 10:54 ` Alexander Holler
2013-02-13 9:30 ` Alexander Holler
2013-02-07 18:44 ` Olaf Titz [this message]
2013-02-11 19:44 ` Alexander Holler
2013-02-12 13:00 ` Alexander Holler
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