RE: PATCH: /dev/nvram cleanups.

Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:45:57 +0300 (EEST)

> I think there's another reason for not decoding the upper
> bytes though. Some BIOS's encode passwords there, which are
> notoriously insecure. (Do a websearch for BIOS cracker)
> If this interface were opened up to show the upper bytes,
> the userspace app to decode them should only decode the
> upper bytes if the user has the capabilities.

I know about BIOS crackers, I have wriiten one myself. I don't think we
should put the BIOS cracker into the nvram driver. This is userspace
thingy. The kernel should export just the raw bytes and probably a method
for checking and setting the checksum.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

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