Re: Fw: signed kernel modules?

[Chuck Ebbert]

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 23:36 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > No. I still don't know, why the kernel has to do this? You avoided to 
> > answer this question already before.
>
> Partly to protect against accidentally-corrupted modules causing damage.

  OK, so why no integrity-checking code for the kernel itself?  Surely it too
could be accidentally corrupted...


--Chuck Ebbert  15-Oct-04  11:13:15
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