Re: Cryptoloop patch for builtin default passphrase

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:33:43 BST, Paulo Marques said:

> I don't have any feelings about this patch, but it seems to me that you 
> could always store the contents of the nvram somewhere "safe" (you could 
> even write them down and take it to a safe deposit box in a bank :) ), 
> and, if those contents happen to change, you could always write them 
> again...

That's assuming that your machine will even *boot* correctly and cleanly if the
contents of the NVRAM are put back.

And if you're doing the "write it down and type it in again" thing, you might
as well just use a passphrase, as it's defeating the whole concept of
using /dev/nvram to xor against....

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