On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote: > On Wednesday 19 August 2009 21:21:28 Michal Suchanek wrote: > > Tell me one technical benefit of TPM over coreboot. > > Coreboot doesn't provide protected storage of secrets (e.g. harddrive > decryption keys).
Note that coreboot itself is not a complete firmware, it's a framework that can be combined with other components, like GRUB, to produce a bootloader-class firmware. With your help, coreboot+GRUB may well support encrypted hard drives. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
