Re: Grub Security Modules :)

[Uwe Hermann]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:26:45PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:08:35PM +0000, Oleg Strikov wrote:
> > Good Day!
> > I'm gonna create some grub2 security extensions to make fully functional 
> > High
> > Assurance Bootloader. Now a have some pre-alpha code, but it seems to be
> > functional in short time.
> > I'm exporting some code from gnupg (gpl v.3) project (RSA and MD5 impl). Is
> > it correct?
> > 
> > Will it be usable for grub2 development?
> 
> Hi Oleg!
> 
> What is a High Assurance Bootloader ?

Yep, good question.

Is this related to TPMs and stuff? If so, please check

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/trustedgrub
  http://trousers.sourceforge.net/grub.html

Does the functionality overlap? What's the status of
TrustedGRUB? Should the projects be merged? etc. etc.


Uwe.
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