Re: Whitelisting only digitally signed binaries

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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 20:49:00 +0000,
  Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> McGuffey, David C. <DAVID.C.MCGUFFEY <at> saic.com> writes:
> > Has any work taken place in the Linux community toward building a
> > "trusted loader" into Linux.  If so, what is the status? If not, why
> > not?
> 
> This would be against the very idea of Free Software, i.e. the right to freely 
> modify your software and use such modified versions.
> See e.g.: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

That depends on who has the keys. If the system admins can use their own
keys, then it isn't a problem.

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