From: Naomaru Itoi (naomonkey.org)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 13:32:04 CDT

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Hi, :)

I actually tried to send it, but I guess it didn't go through. Let me try
again.

http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-8.pdf

This is the paper we wrote about integrating a smartcard into BIOS and
bootloader (GRUB). The card is used to check the bootstrap process, OS,
and software installed on the PC.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Arno Wilhelm wrote:

> 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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