On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:38:43AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ah, but giving the user half the key doesn't mean they still don't have > > access > > to the entire key. QED: Giving people half the key won't cut it under the > > GPLv3 (dd4) > > I meant really giving, rather than giving a copy, or giving the > original and keeping a copy. > > You could make it require a pair of signatures, one from the vendor, > that the vendor keeps, one from the user, that the vendor never sees, > too. Like some bank PINs, it gets generated, used to generate some > hash (the signature for the initial installation), printed in an > envelope for you and stored in the package along with the machine. Or > something like that.
Wow, and I thought losing a microsoft "certificate of authenticity" and associated key was a pain. Ouch. Talk about your paper "dongle". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
