On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 10:29:55 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > Opal is proprietary garbage, and proprietary crypto schemes are almost > always terrible. (there is also no real way to check that it is actually > working and still working). > > TXT is intel marketing, it isn't anything special just DRTM vs regular > TPM SRTM that makes it so something can change slightly without having > to re-do the measurement. Of course there are also no libre devices that > have TXT (purism isn't libre[1]) > > [1] On the "libreM" no open source hardware init is performed their > "coreboot" is simply a wrapper layer, if you buy from them you get an > overpriced quanta laptop that will never be FSF RYF unless they bribe > someone to modify the certification standards.
Yes Joanna talks about failure of txt in a paper. Ya nothing is gonna be 100% libre when it comes to hardware unfortunately. In the 90s computer users were more educated and it was harder for intel and microsoft to get away with even minor changes. Like their processes collecting ids. It beca,e big news, like pentium 3s collecting id numbers hit big commerical news on tv. But nowadays everyone is using a pc and most users don't care or don't believe. Its all politics. nothing will also be 100% secure, we gotta use what we got though. As long as it does not affect usability or have adverse affect on security, why not? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e1576c31-c2a4-422a-a4a6-f1cfcb3b0ce1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
