On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:04:16AM -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote: > I am interested in seeing support for encrypted partitions added to GRUB. > On the GRUB Wiki, encryption support is listed as a suggested project for > Google's Summer of Code 2008. Did anyone pick up this project? If not, I > would like to take a stab at it. Before I start looking closely at this, I > have two questions: > > 1. How do I know exactly what subset of libc is available to me as a GRUB > developer? Obviously, system calls would not be expected to work because > the operating system has not yet been loaded, but I would expect libmath > routines to be usable by GRUB. What about other libraries? > > 2. Does anyone have any tips on how this could be implemented? I have a > lot of experience working with encrypted root filesystems, but this is my > first shot at an encrypted boot filesystem. I would appreciate comments > from seasoned GRUB developers as I delve into the project's code myself.
I think the first you should do is check the list archives. IIRC there was someone else already working on this (not sure if he's still active, though). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
