Re: Strong Crypto Support for GRUB2

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:49:52 +0200
Simon Peter <dn.tlp@gmx.net> wrote:

> Did the message below ever arrive on the list?
> 
> I'm still interested in getting strong crypto into grub mainline and
> while it's still not in, I just saw you guys proposed this as a
> project for Google's summer of code. Are you going to point students
> at the code I already produced? Would be a shame if you have someone
> replicate the work already done.
> 
> What's missing to get my code into GRUB2 mainline?

I think you'll have to assign copyright to the FSF.

Regards,
Colin


> Thanks!
> Simon
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:25:47 +0100
> From: Simon Peter <simon.peter@gmx.de>
> To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
> Cc: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>, Robert Millan
> <rmh@aybabtu.com> Subject: Re: Strong Crypto Support for GRUB2
> 
> 
> > Sorry for the *very* late reply.
> 
> Sorry for my late reply. I wasn't subscribed anymore (and I'm still
> not) and only now I found out that you replied...
> 
> Attached is my patch against current CVS with the changes you proposed
> incorporated.
> 
> I'd appreciate very much if you could review this complete patch
> again. Sorry for any inconvenience with my first weird double-patch.
> 
> > > +int
> > > +aes_self_test (int verbose)
> > >  {
> [...]
> > > +	printf ("passed\n");
> > Where does printf come from?
> 
> It's in a self-test routine that's actually never included in the GRUB
> source. Shall I remove the whole thing?
> 
> Thanks!
> Simon
> 
>