exactly what i was dreaming off when I stumbled into your patch!!! hopefully your patch is already doing 99.9999999% of the work... stripping the hash from the tail of the image instead of the gpxe script shouldn't be a big change, right?
thank you! -Alessandro On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 22:39, Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Alessandro Salvatori <[email protected]> > wrote: >> does any image format mind if you append a few extra "signature" bytes >> beyond the end of the image? >> >> i guess in most cases it might be safe to assume no... > > If gPXE strips the extra bytes off and doesn't treat them as part of > the image data, then the client program never knows that those bytes > were there. Your idea is interesting because the user doesn't need to > manage hashes - a tool could be used to sign any file. > > Stefan > _______________________________________________ gPXE-devel mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe-devel
