From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KHgGj-0004k6-W6 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:40:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHgGj-0004jp-6j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:40:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHgGi-0004jK-Ro for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:40:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33092 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHgGi-0004jG-JT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:40:12 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:53646) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHgGi-0001qW-6T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:40:12 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KHgBn-0003VO-7U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:35:07 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KHgFt-0006nb-R9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:39:21 +0200 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:39:21 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080712143921.GD25455@thorin> References: <200807080732.41009.okuji@enbug.org> <200807080824.39567.michael@gorven.za.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200807080824.39567.michael@gorven.za.net> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:40:13 -0000 On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:24:33AM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote: > On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:32:40 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > This news, basically, says that my company will provide a solution to > > activating pre-installed software in a computer, after entering an access > > code with cryptography, using GRUB 2. > > I have been working on adding support for encrypted partitions to GRUB2. It > includes a generic crypto module with numerous ciphers and hashes, which may > be useful to you. My patch[1] is still waiting for further review and for > some legal issues to be addressed. I think what Okuji said means merging it in GRUB 2 is not a prerequisite for this plan: So, my current plan is to help this work only under the name of my company, but not as the official maintainer, and I will not incorporate the result into the official source code. I might check in patches, when they are generally useful, and nothing with DRM. But the very feature will not be a part of genuine GRUB, but be provided as a form of a patch. Anyway, GRUB 2 has been developed in the way that third parties can make extensions easily, so it is not hard to maintain an optional feature externally. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)