Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

[Michael Gorven]

On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:32:40 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> This news, basically, says that my company will provide a solution to
> activating pre-installed software in a computer, after entering an access
> code with cryptography, using GRUB 2.

I have been working on adding support for encrypted partitions to GRUB2. It 
includes a generic crypto module with numerous ciphers and hashes, which may 
be useful to you. My patch[1] is still waiting for further review and for 
some legal issues to be addressed.

Michael

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-05/msg00157.html

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