Re: [PATCH 0/4] KEYS: validate key trust with owner and builtin keys only

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 23:24:16 EST


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:08:15PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 03:22 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Providing a userspace mechanism for selectively dropping keys from the
> > kernel seems like a good thing?
>
> No, patch "KEYS: verify a certificate is signed by a 'trusted' key" adds
> signed public keys.

Yes. Wouldn't having a mechanism to allow userspace to drop keys that
have otherwise been imported be a generally useful solution to the issue
you have with that?

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