Re: Fwd: Fwd: Getting path in inode_permission

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:29 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:42:50 +0530, noyb noybee said:
> You missed the point.  How does the process *securely* get the passphrase
> that will be passed into the syscall? (Hint - a keystroke logger is only
> the *start* of your problems.  Think about why the kernel module signing
> code uses public-key crypto instead of symmetric private keys...)

I was planning that the calling process would call the new system call
which would return a pseudo-random key that is used as the
pass-phrase.

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