From: James Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:17:47 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20120914103930.1e16ad8b@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20120913234802.3575.77103.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20120913235005.3575.46218.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <13189.1347989652@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20120918195115.6ddcf5fc@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Howells , herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, pjones@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, zohar@us.ibm.com, dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Return-path: Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:41997 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061Ab2ISEZ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:25:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120918195115.6ddcf5fc@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:34:12 +0100 > David Howells wrote: > > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Why do this in the kernel.That appears to be completely insane. > > > > A number of reasons: > > > > (1) The UEFI signature/key database may contain ASN.1 X.509 certificates and > > we may need to use those very early in the boot process, during initrd. > > Ok that makes some sense. I'd like to see some serious effort at code review and testing before this code is merged. - James -- James Morris