Re: Cryptoloop patch for builtin default passphrase

[Nico Augustijn]

On Monday 25 October 2004 19:19, you wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:54:31 +0200, "Nico Augustijn." said:
> > But all that takes some searching. And the passphrase is also XOR-ed with
> > the first 32 bytes of /dev/nvram.
>
> So if something touches the first 32 bytes of NVRAM, your data evaporates?
>
> Is this considered a desirable result?
Yes. In this case it is very much a desirable result.
As this patch is meant (as far as I am concerned) for embedded systems only, I 
really don't want people to muck about with the BIOS settings (primary boot 
device, for instance).
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