Early boot, activation, upgrades

C. Scott Ananian cscott at cscott.net
Tue Jul 10 08:46:27 EDT 2007


On 7/10/07, Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Decompression is fast, but the signature verification is not so fast,
> especially since there are several different algorithms.

Can't we just SHA1 the kernel+initrd bundle and sign the hash?  SHA1
should be fast enough...
  --scott

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