2008/10/20 Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 01:36:27PM -0700, Davide Pesavento wrote: >> 2008/10/20 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > We just need to get this git tree created. What crda will need though >> > is to wget the RSA public key so it can be built with support for new >> > arbitrary updates to the binary db. Give us a few days, we'll get this >> > setup. >> > >> >> I'm not sure I can follow you here. This is what I understood so far: >> >> (1) Someone (e.g. John Linville) creates a RSA key pair and puts the >> public key in a public place (e.g. linuxwireless.org website). > > Sure, although I'd use "wireless.kernel.org" from here on as we have no > control over linuxwireless.org and the domain owner didn't want to give us > ownership of it so we cannot be sure it'll always be updated. > Ok. >> (2) John "compiles" db.txt into its binary form (regulatory.bin), >> signs it with his private key and makes it publicly available >> somewhere (e.g. again linuxwireless.org). > > ACK > >> (3) Packagers create a package for the crda daemon alone, and a >> package containing regulatory.bin and the public part of the key pair >> used to sign it. > > The public key will need to be wget'd to build crda binary as the public > key is built in as part of the binary. > Ah, right. This is the point I forgot, thanks for your explanation. This is not a problem for Gentoo ebuilds; I guess it isn't for other distros as well. >> (4) When the regulatory database is updated, John releases a new >> version by "compiling" and signing it again. > > ACK > > Luis > Regards, Davide -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
