On Jan 5, 2008 6:39 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 January 2008 07:30, Bean wrote: > > I'm thinking that compressed might not be the right word, as filter > > doesn't limit to decompression, it can support decryption or format > > conversion as well. I guess the name grub_file_open_ex may be better. > > I also add a flag to the function, if flag!=0, filters are used, and > > if flag=0, grub_file_open_ex is just like grub_file_open. > > I feel that this is too theoretical. In reality, if you want to support, say, > an encrypted file to be decrypted automatically, you need to supply a private > key or a passphrase or something like that. How can this be unified and > transparent?
the filter can export a command/function to set key, then it can use it to decrypted files. if the password is file based, it can prompt the user before opening the file. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
