On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:59:20 Michael Gorven wrote: > On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:39:21 Robert Millan wrote: > > 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: > > I agree. I was just pointing out that my work may be useful and could save > him some effort. His module could use the ciphers and hashes from my patch > instead of reimplementing them again.
Yes. I will use your patch. I also would like to consider whether or how we should incorporate your patch into the official repository. Since ciphers are useful for many different things, I think the question is only about the API or the code structure. Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
