On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:39:59AM -0700, Jan Setje-Eilers wrote: > In the network boot case the boot loader also needs to know how to > access and read from the remote source. Anything else would basically > be magic. :)
But it already does. Though only with WANboot is it secure. Teaching grub to do HTTP and TLS won't suffice for x86: we need sort of key storage, and short of a BIOS (or LinuxBIOS) extension to match the OBP's then TPMs will have to be the answer. But at least we can defer that to another day.
