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

[David Howells]

Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Since it's discarded at the end of boot, it could be padded significantly.
> 
> If you use the hash tree approach, the size of the thing in bzImage is
> constant.

Given that bzImage is usually compressed, a whole slew of contiguous zero
padding is also constant in size.

David
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