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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] x86/txt for v2.6.32
On Mon 2009-09-28 14:11:25, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/28/2009 02:07 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, I worry that S3 support for TXT makes TXT completely useless. A
> >> little liquid nitrogen, remove RAM, place it in another machine,
> >> modify it in any way you want, more liquid nitrogen, place it back.
> >>
> >> Oops, protection provided by TXT is lost.
> >
> > Ah, I see your point now.
> >
>
> Shane Wang sent me a patch for S3 support, but it missed the merge window:
>
> http://marc.info/?i=4A9CE0B2.5060608@intel.com
>
> *As far as I understand* -- and I haven't looked into it in detail yet,
> having just come back from Plumber's -- this provides integrity
> protection, not content extraction protection.

How does it provide integrity protection? I'm free to modify RAM
content in the other machine....
Pavel
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