Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification
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.
Matt writes:
> I'll be interested to see what happens when we get software in that
> situation proposed for Debian.
Doesn't seem likely. What purpose would such a thing serve?
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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