Bug#939392: please provide kmodsign like Ubuntu does

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 04:35:44PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 03:47:35PM +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>>Package: sbsigntool
>>Version: 0.9.2-2
>>Severity: normal
>>
>>Could you please provide kmodsign tool like Ubuntu package does, so that
>>we can sign Linux kernel modules with custom keys.
>
>ACK, that would be a good thing to have.
>
>Steve - would you be happy to push the ubuntu patches up into Debian?
>
>Probably worth us talking to the original kmodsign authors (David
>Howells and David Woodhouse) and the sbsigntool maintainer (James
>Bottomley) about maybe integrating things upstream too. I'll try to
>start a conversation there...

Hmmm, hang on - it's just the "sign-file" program from the kernel
tree, renamed as "kmodsign" for some reason. Steve: the bug at

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1526959

named in the patches doesn't seem all that relevant - could you
enlighten us please? :-)

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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