Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support

[Shea Levy]

On 10/31/2012 01:03 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:55:04 +0100 (CET)
> Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > All this depends on your threat model. If I have physical access to
> > > suspend/resume your machine then you already lost. If I don't have
> > > physical access then I can't boot my unsigned OS to patch your S4 image
> > > so it doesn't matter.
> > Prepare (as a root) a hand-crafted image, reboot, let the kernel resume
> > from that artificial image.
> It's not signed. It won't reboot from that image.

So then to hibernate the kernel must have a signing key?

> Alan
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