On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:57:30 Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 07:32 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit : > > <snip> > > In fact, you want to write a GRUB module which deciphers a partition > when given a key. That's no DRM in any way. In the DRM world, users > don't (and can't) get the real keys.
You are completely right. I don't try to mean that it is a sort of DRM by itself. My concern is rather about making it too easy to implement DRM on the top of GRUB. For example, if the logic is present, it is very straightforward to get a key from somewhere else but an user input (e.g. by using a BIOS call), and hide it from the user. I can think of many nasty ways to hide the key, even if GRUB is free. This is feasible technically anyway, by implementing everything, without having support functions in the core. However, I am not willing to help such effort officially. Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
