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Linux 6.15 Plans To Drop Support For A Useless CRC-32 Checksum In The Kernel Image

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    That’s hilarious, they do a CRC check, but nothing validates the CRC actually matches. Then Secure boot breaks the CRC but nothing happens because nothing is checking it.

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    SHA512 ftw.

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