The one in question is 6,185,678 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=...)
And from my understanding, it's owned by the U of Penn and comes down to their decision when an open source implementation can be released.
- Adam A.
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
If anyone has some actual patent #'s we can all find out more at http://delphion.com
Of interest so far I find:
US6546489: Disk drive which provides a secure boot of a host computer system from a protected area of a disk -doesn't sound like it uses PKI but it's a start US6175924: Method and apparatus for protecting application data in secure storage areas -uses PKI, but for userspace code.
And we could see the really interesting stuff about MS's Palladium (I know, they changed the name...) pending applications for a mere $75 a month.
Jeremy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Agnew" agnew@cs.umd.edu To: "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederman@lnxi.com Cc: "McMechan, James W CIV" james.mcmechan@navy.mil; linuxbios@clustermatic.org Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:58 PM Subject: Re: Random comments on LinuxBIOS
In addition there is some background work on secure/trusted booting. I
don't
know if anything has really happened with that yet, but ADLO grow out of the interest in trusted booting.
The evils of software patents are still in force. It exists, it can't be released..
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