Re: kmods and Fedora

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Josh Boyer wrote:
> If you are creating a cert to sign the out-of-tree modules and expect
> it to be accepted by the kernel, it cannot be ephemeral.  A user would
> need someway to import it into their kernel or have it passed from
> grub.  The only way to do so is to have it embedded in shim or the
> kernel during the build of those binaries.  I do not foresee Fedora
> creating yet another persistent key to sign things with, which means
> you would need another tool that can use the existing key in the
> kernel builders.

That just proves that Restricted Boot and especially our implementation of 
it (requiring kernel modules to be signed) is a very bad thing.

        Kevin Kofler
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