[OLPC-devel] Secure BIOS on the OLPC

Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Tue Aug 29 12:49:27 EDT 2006


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> If countries with autonomous regions (like Spain) are ever going to
> participate in an OLCP rollout, the autonomous regions are likely
> to demand an additional three keys as well.

Folks, the reason I brought this up on devel@ was to discuss the
technical approach, not policy. We can work out policy separately;it
does not belong in this discussion.

> Our BIOS updates will fix security holes (good) and ....

... and pointedly *not* make it impossible to run your own software, as
I've made abundantly clear by now, I hope.

Cheers,

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