Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Jochen Hoenicke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Image decryption support in GRUB? Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:07:45 +0200 (MET DST) What about "kernel [blowfish,12345678]/tftproot/kernel.image" One could concatenate filters like this: [gunzip][blowfis

Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-03 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Aug 2, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: [...] In order to make your decryption support both clean and extensible, I would advise a more Hurdish approach: grub settrans -a / blowfish 12345678 # use one key grub kernel /tftproot/kernel.image grub settrans -a / blowfish 87654321 # use

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

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