>does anybody know wheter there exists a "bootprotection project" for linux/(windows?) that uses smartcard or usb tokens? It must be a programm
that resides in the mbr and only boots when the user can authenticate with a smartcard/usb token.
I don't know a such system. I have used google and I find some links. There is no solution but perhaps they will interest you. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/security/protecttools_smartcard.html http://home.hkstar.com/~alanchan/papers/smartCardSecurity/#procedural section 4.3
Perhaps you can find something with the keyword: "boot integrity token system".
The Boot Integrity Token System (BITS) was developed to protect computer systems from a large number of viruses that affect the booting system, and enforce control of access. BITS is designed so that the computer boots from a boot sector stored on the smart card, bypassing the boot sector on the computer which can easily be infected by a virus. The card also can be configured to allow access to the computer only by authorised users (Clark and Hoffman 1994, 67-68).
(see on http://www.javacard.org/others/sc_applications.htm )
sorry that I post this question here, but I could not find any other
mailinglist that deals with this topic.
A newsgroup alt.technology.smartcards is available on : http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=alt.technology.smartcards
Thanks for your links -> think I will have to read for some time :-)
Regards,
Arno
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