Re: [PATCH 2/6] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM)

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Dec 03 2008 - 13:23:19 EST


On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:18:43PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> IMA originally supported measurement and attestation only for file data.
> Templates provide an abstraction to add different types of integrity
> messages to the TPM based measurement list. Each type of integrity code
> knows how to format/display its own messages, while the TPM measurement
> list code remains generic.

I have a bit of a problem parsing the above, and it certainly doesn't
look like a justification for keeping all that unused code around.

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