From: Nico Augustijn <kernel@janestarz.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cryptoloop patch for builtin default passphrase
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:57:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410252057.58151.kernel@janestarz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410251719.i9PHJmOi009687@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Monday 25 October 2004 19:19, you wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:54:31 +0200, "Nico Augustijn." said:
> > But all that takes some searching. And the passphrase is also XOR-ed with
> > the first 32 bytes of /dev/nvram.
>
> So if something touches the first 32 bytes of NVRAM, your data evaporates?
>
> Is this considered a desirable result?
Yes. In this case it is very much a desirable result.
As this patch is meant (as far as I am concerned) for embedded systems only, I
really don't want people to muck about with the BIOS settings (primary boot
device, for instance).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-25 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-25 11:54 Cryptoloop patch for builtin default passphrase Nico Augustijn.
2004-10-25 17:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-25 17:33 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-25 17:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-25 18:23 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-25 19:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-26 11:17 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-26 21:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-25 18:57 ` Nico Augustijn [this message]
2004-10-25 19:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-26 6:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
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2004-10-27 13:27 Nico Augustijn
2004-10-27 20:01 ` Bill Davidsen
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