On 11/29/2011 03:42 PM, David Howells wrote:
>
> I have provided a couple of subtypes: DSA and RSA. Both types have signature
> verification facilities available within the kernel, and both can be used for
> module signature verification with any encryption algorithm known by the PGP
> parser, provided the appropriate algorithm is compiled directly into the
> kernel.
>
Do we really need the complexity of a full OpenPGP parser? Parsers are
notorious security problems. Furthermore, using DSA in anything but a
hard legacy application is not something you want to encourage, so why
support DSA?
-hpa
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