Re: [U-Boot] sha256_crypt for uboot

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Retanubun
On 05/07/12 05:59 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: Hi Albert, Thanks for responding, I realize most people are probably away on summer holiday. Can't speak for Wolfgang of course, but my main question would be why would U-Boot need to identify users when its payload OS can do this with much more

Re: [U-Boot] sha256_crypt for uboot

2012-07-09 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Hi Richard, On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:50:05 -0400, Richard Retanubun richardretanu...@ruggedcom.com wrote: On 05/07/12 05:59 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: Hi Albert, Thanks for responding, I realize most people are probably away on summer holiday. Actually some of them are at a U-Boot developer's

Re: [U-Boot] sha256_crypt for uboot

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Retanubun
Thanks for responding, I realize most people are probably away on summer holiday. Actually some of them are at a U-Boot developer's meeting in Geneva. Uh-oh... Is it safe to place such a high concentration of hacker brains so close to CERN? :) The primary concern here is the power of u-boot

Re: [U-Boot] sha256_crypt for uboot

2012-07-09 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Hi Richard, On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:55:18 -0400, Richard Retanubun richardretanu...@ruggedcom.com wrote: Thanks for responding, I realize most people are probably away on summer holiday. Actually some of them are at a U-Boot developer's meeting in Geneva. Uh-oh... Is it safe to place

Re: [U-Boot] sha256_crypt for uboot

2012-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Richard Retanubun, In message 4ffae18d.3080...@ruggedcom.com you wrote: Thus, we aim to add the ability uboot to identify users, much like the payload OS does before granting access to its CLI (if the user interrupts the boot process). You are opening a can of worms here, and I bet you

Re: [U-Boot] sha256_crypt for uboot

2012-07-05 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Hi Richard, On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:46:57 -0400, Richard Retanubun richardretanu...@ruggedcom.com wrote: Hello, I am working on a project to allow uboot to authenticate users by using the same sha256_crypt function that Linux user-space use for libcrypt [ref]

[U-Boot] sha256_crypt for uboot

2012-06-27 Thread Richard Retanubun
Hello, I am working on a project to allow uboot to authenticate users by using the same sha256_crypt function that Linux user-space use for libcrypt [ref] http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt We chose sha256 because uboot already have support for doing sha256 hashes, I am wondering