On Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 03:49 Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 06:34:38PM -0700, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> wrote:
>
> > This bid at odds with the need to keep kernel small. Why not just put
> > verifiers as the first module to load? Presumably you need to verify the
> > whole core in either case.
>
> They're not useful as an external module, so they need to be built into
> the core image in any case (otherwise an attacker just replaces the
> verifier moduleā€¦).

Yes, part of core image, that's what I meant

>  if you're making the ordering significant,
> it's far too easy for someone to mess up and end up with an insecure
> system as a result.
>
Adding them would be part of grub-install, not manual by user.

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