From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:26:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20070214190938.6438.15091.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, herbert.xu@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com, arjan@infradead.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: David Howells Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:41196 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932471AbXBNT0p (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:26:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070214190938.6438.15091.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, David Howells wrote: > > (1) A cut-down MPI library derived from GPG with error handling added. Do we really need to add this? Wouldn't it be much nicer to just teach people to use one of the existing signature things that we need for _other_ cases anyway, and already have merged? (Of course, it's possible that none of the current crypto supports any signature checking at all - I didn't actually look. In which case my argument is pointless). Linus