Random comments on LinuxBIOS

[Jeremy Jackson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman at lnxi.com>
To: "Adam Agnew" <agnew at cs.umd.edu>
Cc: "Jeremy Jackson" <jerj at coplanar.net>; "McMechan, James W CIV"
<james.mcmechan at navy.mil>; <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: Random comments on LinuxBIOS


> Adam Agnew <agnew at cs.umd.edu> writes:
>
> > The one in question is  6,185,678
> >
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtm
l/search-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&p=1&p=1&S1=(William+AND+Arbaugh)&OS=Wil
liam+AND+Arbaugh&RS=(William+AND+Arbaugh)
>
> That was an interesting read.  At least I now have an idea of what
> Bill was thinking of.  Most interesting is that there is not a mechanism
> for the trust to go both ways.   In particular how is the loaded
> code to know it is running on a trusted system.

I think that is addressed by MS's Palladium (new name escapes me).