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- <h1><a href='0000763729.html'>[$] Protecting files with fs-verity</a></h1>
+ <h2><a href='0000763729.html'>[$] Protecting files with fs-verity</a></h2>
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- The developers of the Android system have, among their many goals, the wish to better protect Android devices against persistent compromise. It is bad if a device is taken over by an attacker; it's worse if it remains compromised even after a reboot. Numerous mechanisms for ensuring the integrity of installed system files have been proposed and implemented over the years. But it seems there is always room for one more; to fill that space, the fs-verity mechanism is being proposed as a way to protect individual files from malicious modification.
+ The developers of the Android system have, among their many goals, the wish to better protect Android devices against persistent compromise. It is bad if a device is taken over by an attacker; it's worse if it remains compromised even after a reboot. Numerous mechanisms for ensuring the integrity of installed system files have been proposed and implemented over the years. But it seems there is always room for one more; to fill that space, the [1]fs-verity mechanism is being proposed as a way to protect individual files from malicious modification.<br/><br/><br/><br/>[1] https://lwn.net/ml/linux-fsdevel/20180824161642.1144-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/
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