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Re: [Muscle] linux bootprotection with smartcards? (offtopic)

From: Arno Wilhelm (a.wilhelmphion.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 11:09:05 CDT

Hello,

> There was a paper in the last Usenix, "Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open
> Source BIOS" that describes putting a linux kernel into the bios itself. I
> think that's what you want.

Yes, I have read an article about it in a german linux magazine. That sounded
very intesting.

> One of our former students, Nao Itoi, was working on a project to do secure
> booting with smartcards. I don't know how far he got.

Hmm, would be interesting to hear something about the state of his project.

Regards,

                Arno

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