Thread (52 messages) 52 messages, 11 authors, 2013-10-17

Re: [RFC V4 PATCH 00/15] Signature verification of hibernate snapshot

From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: 2013-09-25 21:25:41
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, David Howells wrote:
I have pushed some keyrings patches that will likely affect this to:

	http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=keys-devel

I intend to ask James to pull these into his next branch.  If he's happy to do
so, I can look at pulling at least your asymmetric keys patch on top of them.
This suggests a point that I raised at the Linux Plumbers conference:

Why are asymmetric keys used for verifying the hibernation image?  It
seems that a symmetric key would work just as well.  And it would be a
lot quicker to generate, because it wouldn't need any high-precision
integer computations.

Alan Stern
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