[U-Boot-Users] Support for verifying the certificate signatures on the downloaded files?

Detlev Zundel dzu at denx.de
Tue Nov 2 23:25:15 CET 2004


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

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