From: Detlev Zundel Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:25:15 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Support for verifying the certificate signatures on the downloaded files? In-Reply-To: (Shekhar Kshirsagar's message of "Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:55:28 -0800") References: Message-ID: <87mzxz3n3o.fsf@deepthought.outer.space.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Shekhar, > Based on my reading of the u-boot documentation, at present u-boot > there is no support for verification of certificate signatures in > the downloaded files. If, this Is correct, has somebody considered > adding support for this to u-boot? You mean checking downloaded image files signed by certificates? Um, I am not sure what you want to do this for in a _bootloader_ - sure U-Boot gets big but its still no operating system :) Honestly, I don't understand the use for it, may be you can shed some more light on this. And just to consider the thought some more - I don't want to argue with Wolfgang for the storage of the CA certificates :) Cheers Detlev -- SWYM XYZ (Sympathize with your machinery). [..] In fact it is often called a no-op, because it performs no operation. It does, however, keep the machine running smoothly, just as real-world swimming helps to keep programmers healthy. -- Donald Knuth, Fascicle 1