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: <quote> So, my current plan is to help this work only under the name of my company, but not as the official maintainer, and I will not incorporate the result into the official source code. I might check in patches, when they are generally useful, and nothing with DRM. But the very feature will not be a part of genuine GRUB, but be provided as a form of a patch. Anyway, GRUB 2 has been developed in the way that third parties can make extensions easily, so it is not hard to maintain an optional feature externally. </quote> -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
