Re: Cryptoloop patch for builtin default passphrase

From: Paulo Marques
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 06:24:51 EST


Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:23:35 BST, Paulo Marques said:


(why would you need confidential information to boot in the first place?)


The problem is not that the info in the NVRAM is "confidential",
but that most of it is "configuration".

I can why we were disagreeing, then.

I was assuming that these bytes were otherwise unused, because this didn't make any sense to me otherwise.

If they are used for BIOS configuration, then I completely agree with you. Sorry for the noise.

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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