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

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 19 May 2015, David Howells wrote:

> That wouldn't very convenient for building our kernels in our build farm 
> - we have a lot of machines and all of them would have to be equiped 
> with the key.  Besides, we *want* to discard the private key where 
> possible as soon as possible because then we can't leak it and we can't 
> be forced to disclose it.

You can still have a dedicated machine that's used just for signing the 
binaries. That machine wouldn't be connected to the network, would be 
physically secured, and would sign through a serial line or so.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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