Re: [Etherboot-developers] Checksum Failed

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >Additionally there has been some research in how to implement trusted
> >computing.  Which I believe means verifying an image signature when
> >the image is downloaded.  And with an infrastructure to check an image
> >checksum it is clear where to put the hooks to verify an image
> >signature.
> 
> Yes, speculating if Etherboot could support USB, one thing you could do
> is use a USB dongle to obtain a key with which one could verify a signed
> image. Or maybe the key could be held in the ROM.

And the relevant link to that work is:
http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/main.shtml

There has been activity but I have not seen the contributing
back patches yet..  Though I suspect this would be very useful
on a wireless network or a wide area network.

Eric