Improving the offline updates user experience

[Corey Sheldon]

the keys are in kernelspace IIRC and thus updated / passed on initrd
/initramfs updates and kernel updates

Corey W Sheldon
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On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/13/2014 03:59 AM, Fred New wrote:
> > One step up from this would be something like a kpatch process in rpm
> > combined with packaged metadata that replaces in-memory modules so that
> > reboots wouldn't be necessary. Yeh, probably impossible.
>
> This has almost certainly already been considered by people smarter than
> me, but it occurs to me that there's no reason that kexec couldn't some-
> how pass LUKS/dm-crypt keys to the new kernel.
>
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