Re: [PATCH] module: Do not offer sha224 for built-in module signing

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Oct 20 2023 - 01:54:56 EST


On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:26:33PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> sha224 does not provide enough security against collision attacks
> relative to the default keys used for signing (RSA 4k & P-384). Also
> sha224 never became popular, as sha256 got widely adopter ahead of
> sha224 being introduced.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/module/Kconfig | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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