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Ineffective as a DRM / other checking component
Ineffective as a DRM / other checking component
Posted Apr 11, 2007 18:01 UTC (Wed) by droundy (subscriber, #4559)In reply to: Ineffective as a DRM / other checking component by pimlott
Parent article: Integrity management in the kernel
Except that it'd be horrifically expensive to checksum the entire system at startup. It looks like this approach would allow a trusted startup without having to check everything.
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Ineffective as a DRM / other checking component
Posted Apr 11, 2007 18:19 UTC (Wed) by pimlott (subscriber, #1535) [Link]
Hmm, good point. Lazy evaluation strikes again.