Message-Id: <200410251719.i9PHJmOi009687@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: "Nico Augustijn." <kernel@janestarz.com>
Cc: hvr@gnu.org, clemens@endorphin.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cryptoloop patch for builtin default passphrase 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:54:31 +0200."
             <200410251354.31226.kernel@janestarz.com> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
References: <200410251354.31226.kernel@janestarz.com>
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:54:31 +0200, "Nico Augustijn." said:

> But all that takes some searching. And the passphrase is also XOR-ed with the
> first 32 bytes of /dev/nvram.

So if something touches the first 32 bytes of NVRAM, your data evaporates?

Is this considered a desirable result?

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