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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:17:09 +0100
From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Organization: Grupo PIE
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Subject: Re: Cryptoloop patch for builtin default passphrase
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:23:35 BST, Paulo Marques said:
> 
> 
>>(why would you need confidential information to boot in the first place?)
> 
> 
> The problem is not that the info in the NVRAM is "confidential",
> but that most of it is "configuration".

I can why we were disagreeing, then.

I was assuming that these bytes were otherwise unused, because this 
didn't make any sense to me otherwise.

If they are used for BIOS configuration, then I completely agree with 
you. Sorry for the noise.

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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