Re: [PATCH v2] fsverity: improve documentation for builtin signature support

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2023, at 6:10 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> fsverity builtin signatures (CONFIG_FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES) aren't
> the only way to do signatures with fsverity, and they have some major
> limitations.  Yet, more users have tried to use them, e.g. recently by
> https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/2640.  In most cases this seems
> to be because users aren't sufficiently familiar with the limitations of
> this feature and what the alternatives are.
>
> Therefore, make some updates to the documentation to try to clarify the
> properties of this feature and nudge users in the right direction.

FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx>

And I agree with your points enough that our project using fsverity will switch to documenting userspace crypto first.

I did spend a few minutes reading through `git log -p crypto/asymmetric_keys` and beyond the links to the bugfixes you already sent, I think you're clearly within your rights to add this text to the fsverity docs.  




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