[bug #46032] TPM support

[Mateus Baptista]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46032>

                 Summary: TPM support
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: madruga
            Submitted on: Wed 23 Sep 2015 04:32:32 AM GMT
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 2.02~beta1
         Reproducibility: None
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Hello everyone,

Some time ago many feature requests about TPM support were closed because FSF
considered them dangerous[1,2,3].

In 2015 RMS declared TPM are not dangerous[4] ("...the “Trusted Platform
Modules” available for PCs are not dangerous, and there is no reason not to
include one in a computer or support it in system software."), so I think it's
eligible now to ask this feature again.

It was actually implemented in a GRUB fork[5] so the effort of implementing
this feature is just a merge of code already written.

Thanks

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2012-07/msg00017.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-02/msg00217.html
[3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-08/msg00407.html
[4] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html
[5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/trustedgrub/




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