Re: [RFC v3][PATCH 2/2] intel_txt: Intel(R) TXT and tboot kernel support

Heinz Diehl
2009-05-14T15:47:51Z

On 13.05.2009, Theodore Tso wrote:

> Ross Anderson was one of the first to write about these concerns, over
> five years ago:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
>
> It's interesting that his 2003 document was able to predict the
> emergence of the LaGrande Technology (see question 15 in the above
> FAQ).

Many thanks for pointing this out!

Strange enough, nobody seems to care. I have carefully read Ross Andersons
report, and I'm more than concerned now. Because I'm not a kernel
programmer, I can not see by myself what these patches will do to the Linux
kernel at all, so I can only hope that Linus will not let them in if they
can be misused to what Ross Anderson describes in his paper.

Regards,
Heinz.