Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:19 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I prefer the other solution I suggested a few minutes ago â let
> signing_key.{priv,x509} be autogenerated, and if the user wants to
> provide their own then let them call it something else.

Absolutely. And external keys probably shouldn't be in the build tree
at all, they should be a pointer to outside the build tree (ie "I have
my magic kernel key on the USB key that I mount at xyz").

               Linus
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