Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/16] Crypto keys and module signing [ver #2]

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/29/2011 03:42 PM, David Howells wrote:
> 
> I have provided a couple of subtypes: DSA and RSA.  Both types have signature
> verification facilities available within the kernel, and both can be used for
> module signature verification with any encryption algorithm known by the PGP
> parser, provided the appropriate algorithm is compiled directly into the
> kernel.
> 

Do we really need the complexity of a full OpenPGP parser?  Parsers are
notorious security problems.  Furthermore, using DSA in anything but a
hard legacy application is not something you want to encourage, so why
support DSA?

	-hpa
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