Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:27:47 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> You already rely on BIOS to boot your kernel. What if that evil > binary-only BIOS just readed keystrokes stored in 8042, and is sending > contents of your harddrive over network during memory test?
The bios loads a public key signed executable which is mostly crypted. The disk sees only encrypted fs requests.
Alan
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