Well, I don't have a dedicated AoE for secure keys. Alternatively, can I store the keys on a little USB device? Does it require anything more than a change to the INI (in this case PXE) file?
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote: > On Sun Jul 10 17:56:42 EDT 2011, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: >> Some time ago I modified the rtc driver so we could use '#r/nvram' >> (oh, gosh, this was almost 10 years ago but ...) so that we could use >> the CMOS to store this stuff. Maybe it's time for another look. > > vorsicht! there's a lot of magic stuff in the rtc. and where the magic > bits are depends on your particular special bios. i think the problem > is no one has pieced together 50-odd bytes from rtc - union(used bits). > > i know that some folks have a dedicated aoe network using seperate > interfaces. if you have something like that and you think it's secure > enough, it can be used to store nvram. > > - erik > >
