Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Oct 31 2012 - 12:58:23 EST


On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:55:04 +0100 (CET)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > All this depends on your threat model. If I have physical access to
> > suspend/resume your machine then you already lost. If I don't have
> > physical access then I can't boot my unsigned OS to patch your S4 image
> > so it doesn't matter.
>
> Prepare (as a root) a hand-crafted image, reboot, let the kernel resume
> from that artificial image.

It's not signed. It won't reboot from that image.

Alan
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