Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release Digsig 1.5: kernel module for run-timeauthentication of binaries

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 15:52:59 EST


On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:37:48 +0200, Arjan van de Ven said:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 19:57 +0100, Nix wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Arjan van de Ven said:
> > > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 18:11 +0200, Axelle Apvrille wrote:
> > >> - finally, note you also have choice not to sign this
> > >> elf loader of yours. If it isn't signed, it won't ever
> > >> run ;-)
> > >
> > > so you didn't sign perl ? or bash ?
> >
> > You can write an elf loader in bash?!
>
> I've not tried it.. but afaics bash scripts are sufficiently turing
> complete to pull it off ;)

Well, somebody did 'shasm' (an assembler in bash), so I don't see any reason
you can't do an elf loader... (OK, so you *might* have to write a machine
emulator in bash, store the binary in an array, and emulate the sucker...)

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