Re: new kernel feature in progress

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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> as will be able to see in todays rawhide, we're experimenting with
> adding a patch for gpg-signed kernel modules. The idea behind this is
> for the administrator to *optionally* [1] restrict the set of modules
> that can be linked into the kernel. In selinux context one can even
> eventually allow different security contexts to load different subsets
> of modules, by restricting certain contexts to a predefined gpg keys
> only.
> 
> The work isn't complete yet by far, this is just a heads up. Input for
> creative uses of this infrastructure is welcome :)
> 
> Greetings,
>     Arjan van de Ven
> 
> 
> [1] And I repeat *optionally*. 
> 

Who's patch are you adding?  I know of a couple of different versions of 
this sort of patch.




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