----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederman@lnxi.com To: "Adam Agnew" agnew@cs.umd.edu Cc: "Jeremy Jackson" jerj@coplanar.net; "McMechan, James W CIV" james.mcmechan@navy.mil; linuxbios@clustermatic.org Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:11 AM Subject: Re: Random comments on LinuxBIOS
Adam Agnew agnew@cs.umd.edu writes:
The one in question is 6,185,678
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=... 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).