Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> writes: > So signing is the nice flexible option, and technically the right > thing to do.
Meh.... It's 52k of extra text to get that 'nice flexible'; 1% of my kernel image. That's a lot of bug free code. > (Side note: I hope people realize that the random key is generated > with a 100-year lifespan. So if you build a kernel today, you do > potentially have a "year-2112 problem". I'm not horribly worried, but > I *am* a bit worried about 32-bit time_t overflow and I hope 32-bit > openssl doesn't do anything odd) Yep, David's original patch had that problem; he fixed the kernel's x509 handling to use struct tm, not time_t, and now it Just Works. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
