From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
Subject: Re: SMBIOS-provided encryption key patch
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:57:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080924095758.GF6973@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DAEA5ECC-D8C9-40C5-9DBC-DEED1B099EDF@flyn.org>
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 08:35:52AM -0400, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> I have attached a patch that implements reading an encryption key
> from a SMBIOS record. This is useful for hardware that provides a key
> to a system using SMBIOS when a physical token is attached to a
> system.
Can you be more specific about the application of this? (e.g. with an
example use case)
> This patch is dependent on Michael Gorven's encryption patch
> [1].
Unfortunately we haven't sorted out that patch yet. Although I expect we're
almost there... we need some response from Marco or Okuji.
--
Robert Millan
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-21 12:35 SMBIOS-provided encryption key patch W. Michael Petullo
2008-09-21 15:04 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-09-24 9:57 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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