Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:59:20 Michael Gorven wrote:
>> On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:39:21 Robert Millan wrote:
>>> 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:
>> I agree. I was just pointing out that my work may be useful and could save
>> him some effort. His module could use the ciphers and hashes from my patch
>> instead of reimplementing them again.
> 
> Yes. I will use your patch. I also would like to consider whether or how we 
> should incorporate your patch into the official repository. Since ciphers are 
> useful for many different things, I think the question is only about the API 
> or the code structure.

Hi,

Could you also think about different password hashing schemes and other 
user authenticity cases while designing this.

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen