From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Nico Augustijn." <kernel@janestarz.com>,
hvr@gnu.org, clemens@endorphin.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cryptoloop patch for builtin default passphrase
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:17:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417E3235.9060604@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410251905.i9PJ5Rrj013717@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:23:35 BST, Paulo Marques said:
>
>
>>(why would you need confidential information to boot in the first place?)
>
>
> The problem is not that the info in the NVRAM is "confidential",
> but that most of it is "configuration".
I can why we were disagreeing, then.
I was assuming that these bytes were otherwise unused, because this
didn't make any sense to me otherwise.
If they are used for BIOS configuration, then I completely agree with
you. Sorry for the noise.
--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-25 11:54 Nico Augustijn.
2004-10-25 17:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-25 17:33 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-25 17:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-25 18:23 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-25 19:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-26 11:17 ` Paulo Marques [this message]
2004-10-26 21:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-25 18:57 ` Nico Augustijn
2004-10-25 19:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-26 6:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-27 13:27 Nico Augustijn
2004-10-27 20:01 ` Bill Davidsen
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