Re: [PATCH 14/16] X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder

[James Morris]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:34:12 +0100
> David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Why do this in the kernel.That appears to be completely insane.
> > 
> > A number of reasons:
> > 
> >  (1) The UEFI signature/key database may contain ASN.1 X.509 certificates and
> >      we may need to use those very early in the boot process, during initrd.
> 
> Ok that makes some sense.

I'd like to see some serious effort at code review and testing before this 
code is merged.


- James
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James Morris
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