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Eric S. Raymond Unsubscribes from Linux Kernel Mailing List
- wting 13y agoIt's poor form for the author to quote this out of context. Linus can be abrasive, but this is in response to a patch for adding Secure Boot support in the Linux kernel and thus placing Microsoft in a very powerful position [0]: Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest. If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead. If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that's *your* issue. That has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kernel I maintain. It's trivial for you guys to have a signing machine that parses the PE binary, verifies the signatures, and signs the resulting keys with your own key. You already wrote the code, for chissake, it's in that f*cking pull request. Why should *I* care? Why should the kernel care about some idiotic "we only sign PE binaries" stupidity? We support X.509, which is the standard for signing. Do this in user land on a trusted machine. There is zero excuse for doing it in the kernel. Linus [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/228 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/228