[haiku-development] Re: Design for signed packages

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:04:39 +0100

On 25/03/2014 22:00, Rene Gollent wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2014 4:55 PM, "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Anyway, it seems to me that to get a significant benefit out of
> supporting Secure Boot one would have to go to great length. I'm less and
> less convinced that it is worthwhile to consider it at all. And with it
> making package signing anything more than an optional feature mainly
> targeted at third parties.
> 
> +1, I frankly don't see the point of most of this myself, it's certainly
> not functionality I'd voluntarily use at least, or be willing to see
> enabled in a default build.

SecureBoot is definitely not something I'd support personally since it's
more a vendor lock-in tool than a security feature anyway.

No way I'd pay Microsoft to sign haiku_loader.

François.


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