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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 05:21:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:10:48 +0000
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The kernel is signed. The kernel doesn't check the signature on the 
> > suspend image.
> 
> Which doesn't matter. How are you going to create the tampered image in
> the first place ?

By booting a signed kernel, not turning on swap and writing directly to 
the swap partition.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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