> If we implement something which happens to result in a 2 minute stall > in boot times, the danger is that a clueless engineer at Sony, or LGE, > or Motorola, or BMW, or Toyota, etc, will "fix" the problem without > telling anyone about what they did, and we might not notice right away > that the fix was in fact catastrophically bad.
This is an non-trivial threat. +1 for recognizing it. I know of one VM hypervisor used in US Financial that was effectively doing "One thing you should not do is the following..." from http://lwn.net/Articles/525459/. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
