From: Klaus Weiss <klaus.weiss@nanet.at>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:20:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180693237.4180.0.camel@gnupsi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070530232859.GB24702@coresystems.de>
hallo bist cool
Am Donnerstag, den 31.05.2007, 01:28 +0200 schrieb Stefan Reinauer:
> * Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> [070530 15:18]:
> > IOW, no matter who the keys belong to, the problem is there's a component in
> > the hardware I paid for that is hostile to me, which contains keys that I
> > cannot retrieve (good, because of security), and refuses to use the keys on
> > anything I want it to (bad, because it's inherently an abusive tool).
>
> You do not need a TPM based system. Todays BIOSes prohibit flashing
> anything not signed by the vendor using SMI and hardware lockdown
> mechanisms. You are locked out already, even though you might not care
> or know yet.
>
> Stefan
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-24 8:41 TPM chip and Grub bootloader karmo
2007-05-24 8:59 ` Julien Ranc
2007-05-24 16:03 ` Robert Millan
2007-05-25 9:06 ` Patrick Georgi
2007-05-25 15:11 ` Bruno Wolff III
2007-05-30 13:18 ` Robert Millan
2007-05-30 23:28 ` Stefan Reinauer
2007-05-31 16:40 ` Marco Gerards
2007-06-01 0:13 ` Stefan Reinauer
2007-06-01 10:20 ` Klaus Weiss [this message]
2007-06-01 10:29 ` Klaus Weiss
2007-05-31 10:45 ` Patrick Georgi
2007-05-31 14:01 ` Robert Millan
2007-05-30 13:11 ` Robert Millan
2007-05-26 23:25 ` Jerone Young
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