Re: [PATCH 1/3] X.509: Fix certificate gathering again

From: David Howells
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 05:58:34 EST


David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The only issue is that the makefile expressions are a bit hairy. For
> > starters, we already have definitions for $(quote) and $(space) in
> > kbuild. I'll have a closer look at the config_filename macro and try to
> > simplify it somehow. But it's just cosmetics, the patch can be merged as
> > is for now.
>
> I've actually changed my mind about the 'awk | base64 -d' bit. The error
> handling is too poor. I'd like to do that in C with a variant of the
> existing extract_cert tool, and make sure we have proper X.509
> certificates and error handling/reporting.

You could also do it in perl pretty easily.

David
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