Re: SMBIOS-provided encryption key patch

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 08:35:52AM -0400, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> I have attached a patch that implements reading an encryption key  
> from a SMBIOS record. This is useful for hardware that provides a key  
> to a system using SMBIOS when a physical token is attached to a  
> system.

Can you be more specific about the application of this?  (e.g. with an
example use case)

> This patch is dependent on Michael Gorven's encryption patch  
> [1].

Unfortunately we haven't sorted out that patch yet.  Although I expect we're
almost there... we need some response from Marco or Okuji.

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