Re: TPM support status ?

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 August 2009 21:21:28 Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Tell me one technical benefit of TPM over coreboot.
> 
> Coreboot doesn't provide protected storage of secrets (e.g. harddrive 
> decryption keys).

Note that coreboot itself is not a complete firmware, it's a framework
that can be combined with other components, like GRUB, to produce a
bootloader-class firmware.

With your help, coreboot+GRUB may well support encrypted hard drives.

-- 
Robert Millan

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