Re: Fw: Re: Strong Crypto Support for GRUB2

[Michael Gorven]

On Monday 21 July 2008 01:49:52 Simon Peter wrote:
> I'm still interested in getting strong crypto into grub mainline and
> while it's still not in, I just saw you guys proposed this as a project
> for Google's summer of code. Are you going to point students at the
> code I already produced? Would be a shame if you have someone replicate
> the work already done.

Hi Simon

I've been working on a LUKS module[1] for GRUB, and have used your patch as a 
starting point. I have added a few extra functions to the crypto module, and 
implemented CBC in the crypto module itself. I have also added a number of 
ciphers and hashes[2]. I am still waiting for a proper review of my patch, 
and for some license issues to be resolved. I think that my changes have 
broken the devmapper module, but I intend to implement that functionality in 
the LUKS module some time.

Michael

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-05/msg00127.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-05/msg00157.html

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