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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:23:55 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:08:15PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 03:22 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: 
> > Providing a userspace mechanism for selectively dropping keys from the 
> > kernel seems like a good thing?
> 
> No, patch "KEYS: verify a certificate is signed by a 'trusted' key" adds
> signed public keys.

Yes. Wouldn't having a mechanism to allow userspace to drop keys that 
have otherwise been imported be a generally useful solution to the issue 
you have with that?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org