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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:09:40 +0000
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On 29 Jan 2006, Adrian Bunk uttered the following:
> Signed modules and/or binaries seems to be the application this might be 
> required for, so let's discuss exactly this application and not the 
> others.

Indeed. See e.g. the digsig project at <http://disec.sf.net/> for a
working implementation of signed binaries and shared libraries, with MPI
in the module for exactly this purpose.

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