https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28204

--- Comment #18 from Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> ---
> Doesn't that give a false sense of "security"?
> It still rejects some stuff, but doesn't really protect against "falsifying"
> files, all a server has to do is not provide an IMA 

Yes, but trusted servers won't just do that.

> If it is just to see what would happen if enabling ima file checking, then
> it probably shouldn't reject anything. In that case it should warn for both
> missing and invalid signatures, but still accept them.

The difference between missing and invalid is that the latter is KNOWN bad.
An invalid signature is evidence that the file has a problem.

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