On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:20:36PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote: > This patch introduces a parser for RPM packages. It extracts the digests > from the RPMTAG_FILEDIGESTS header section and converts them to binary data > before adding them to the hash table. > > The advantage of this data type is that verifiers can determine who > produced that data, as headers are signed by Linux distributions vendors. > RPM headers signatures can be provided as digest list metadata.
Err, parsing arbitrary file formats has no business in the kernel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
