> > kernel was trusted - untrusted userspace could have set it on an untrusted > > kernel, but by the same metric an untrusted kernel could just set it itself. > > > > If people object to this name then I swear to god that I will open a poll > > on Phoronix to decide the next attempt and you will like that even less. Go on open the poll - I dare you. But don't be shocked if it ends up being called "Eric" or "Icanhazsigs" 8) > For the Chrome OS use-case, it might be better described as "untrusted > userspace", but that seems unfriendly. :) The "trusted kernel" name > seems fine to me. Trusted is rather misleading. It's not trusted, it's *measured*. It's the same bits you had when you made it, and when you booted it before. Whether you trust them is a different and quite unrelated question. You may have reasons to do either. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
