grub-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: TPM support status ?


From: Duboucher Thomas
Subject: Re: TPM support status ?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:57:50 +0200
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Michal Suchanek a écrit :
>>> Without threat model we're speaking placebo.
>>>
>> Stoned Bootkit?
> 
> Coreboot can prevent that as well as TPM can.
> 

Coreboot can be "stoned" as easily as your MBR since you can easily
rewrite the MBR from the software. On MB that does not support online
overwriting, you may require physical access (but since you already have
to do some dirt work to replace your RO BIOS, that is not really difficult).

> Any threat model which shows the advantage of TPM?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michal

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAkqMZ04ACgkQBV7eXqefhqheswCgmq2li5PD64osiSJROj9Db1iI
ZYAAoK4bgTrOivSSjzHufIWvDlCzO/OF
=Smrd
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]