Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:17:58 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Johannes Schlumberger <spjsschl@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] signed binaries support [0/4]
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Johannes Schlumberger wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Johannes,

> We (two students of CS) built a system for signing binaries and verifying them
> before executing. Our main focus was to implement a way to inhibit execution
> of suid-binaries, which are not trustworthy (i.e. not signed).
>...

doesn't anyone who is able to install a not trustworthy suid-binary 
already have the priviliges to do anything he wants to without requiring 
an suid bit?

> regards,
> 	Johannes
>...

cu
Adrian

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