Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification
On Tue, 04 May 2004, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Consider the hypothetical case of a piece of firmware for a peripheral
> device that is protected by a cryptographic signature such that the
> device will reject anything that is not signed using a specific key.
>
> Let's further assume that that the said firmware is distributed with
> full source (but without the private key used to make the signature)
> and a license saying that you can do whatever you wish with it.
>
> Do you consider this piece of firmware to be distributable in Debian main?
That depends on the availability of another device that could use the same
firmware, and which would not check the cryptographic signature, I guess.
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