From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:10:03 -0700 Message-ID: From: Akshat Kumar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server Topicbox-Message-UUID: fd56e4ba-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Well, I don't have a dedicated AoE for secure keys. Alternatively, can I store the keys on a little USB device? Does it require anything more than a change to the INI (in this case PXE) file? On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Jul 10 17:56:42 EDT 2011, rminnich@gmail.com wrote: >> Some time ago I modified the rtc driver so we could use '#r/nvram' >> (oh, gosh, this was almost 10 years ago but ...) so that we could use >> the CMOS to store this stuff. Maybe it's time for another look. > > vorsicht! =A0there's a lot of magic stuff in the rtc. =A0and where the ma= gic > bits are depends on your particular special bios. =A0i think the problem > is no one has pieced together 50-odd bytes from rtc - union(used bits). > > i know that some folks have a dedicated aoe network using seperate > interfaces. =A0if you have something like that and you think it's secure > enough, it can be used to store nvram. > > - erik > >