SMBIOS-provided encryption key patch

2008-09-21 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have attached a patch that implements reading an encryption key from a SMBIOS record. This is useful for hardware that provides a key to a system using SMBIOS when a physical token is attached to a system. This patch is dependent on Michael Gorven's encryption patch [1]. My system is wr

Re: Crypto Patch: Legal Issues

2008-08-30 Thread W. Michael Petullo
>> In the meantime, I've assigned copyright of my work (excluding the AES >> and RIPEMD implementations) to the FSF. The documents are probably >> already waiting in my mailbox at home. I'll get the signing done once >> I'm back home at the end of this month. > I assume that I shall need to do th

Re: Modifying GRUB to read DMI data

2008-08-24 Thread W. Michael Petullo
On Aug 24, 2008, at 6:32 AM, Javier Martín wrote: 2008/8/24 W. Michael Petullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am interested in modifying GRUB to read DMI data from my BIOS (i.e., the data dmidecode reads). The SMBIOS specification seems to state that the Plug-n-Play function interface is depr

Re: Modifying GRUB to read DMI data

2008-08-23 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I am interested in modifying GRUB to read DMI data from my BIOS (i.e., the data dmidecode reads). The SMBIOS specification seems to state that the Plug-n-Play function interface is deprecated while the table-based interface requires a processor running in 32- or 64-bit protected mode. Does anyone

Modifying GRUB to read DMI data

2008-08-22 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I am interested in modifying GRUB to read DMI data from my BIOS (i.e., the data dmidecode reads). The SMBIOS specification seems to state that the Plug-n-Play function interface is deprecated while the table-based interface requires a processor running in 32- or 64-bit protected mode. Does

Encryption Support for GRUB

2008-08-06 Thread W. Michael Petullo
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 hav