Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
As part of some work I am doing at the moment, I am looking at being able to securely bootstrap (nearly) diskless machines over an untrusted network. Now, the best way that I have, off hand, been able to figure doing this is to have a key on each client machine and use that to decrypt an image

Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-02 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Aug 2, Daniel Pittman wrote: As part of some work I am doing at the moment, I am looking at being able to securely bootstrap (nearly) diskless machines over an untrusted network. Now, the best way that I have, off hand, been able to figure doing this is to have a key on each client

Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jochen Hoenicke wrote: On Aug 2, Daniel Pittman wrote: As part of some work I am doing at the moment, I am looking at being able to securely bootstrap (nearly) diskless machines over an untrusted network. [...] Put your decryption routine in a multiboot compliant

Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-02 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Daniel Pittman writes: DP This does address my needs, at this stage, and is certainly DP something that I can implement inside GRUB. I would propose a new DP command as follows BTW, thanks for asking about the interface before you begin implementation. That way, if your patches become part

Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Daniel! As part of some work I am doing at the moment, I am looking at being able to securely bootstrap (nearly) diskless machines over an untrusted network. Are you afraid that somebody will make a copy of the image or that somebody will send a wrong image? Now, the best way that I

default is static

2000-08-02 Thread Mike Meyer
About the only behavior of BootEasy that I liked was that booting a partition made it the default partition for the next boot. GRUB is much nicer in all other ways, so I figured I'd take a crack at fixing this. The attached patch makes default look for "active" as an argument, and sets the

Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Daniel! As part of some work I am doing at the moment, I am looking at being able to securely bootstrap (nearly) diskless machines over an untrusted network. Are you afraid that somebody will make a copy of the image or