From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KiR9w-0007mY-7a for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:59:48 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiR9u-0007kt-2o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:59:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiR9s-0007jn-UK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:59:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51307 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiR9s-0007jV-LO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:59:44 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:56874) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiR9s-00041C-73 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:59:44 -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 1KiQxU-00032H-1f; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:46:56 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KiR8A-0001vB-OV; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:57:58 +0200 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:57:58 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080924095758.GF6973@thorin> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Subject: Re: SMBIOS-provided encryption key patch 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: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:59:46 -0000 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 The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."