Re: RFC: sign the modules at install time

[David Howells]

Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > (Side note: I hope people realize that the random key is generated
> > with a 100-year lifespan. So if you build a kernel today, you do
> > potentially have a "year-2112 problem". I'm not horribly worried, but
> > I *am* a bit worried about 32-bit time_t overflow and I hope 32-bit
> > openssl doesn't do anything odd)
> 
> Yep, David's original patch had that problem; he fixed the kernel's x509
> handling to use struct tm, not time_t, and now it Just Works.

That's assuming that 32-bit *openssl* gets it right when generating the key.
Trying it on my 32-bit laptop, I see:

  154:d=3  hl=2 l=  15 prim: GENERALIZEDTIME   :21120925112014Z

so I guess it does.

David
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