62673 – IBM TCPA Linux Driver development

Bug 62673 - IBM TCPA Linux Driver development

Summary: IBM TCPA Linux Driver development

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 35574

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Hardened (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Crypto team [DISABLED]

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Reported:	2004-09-02 17:57 UTC by Evan Alter
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Evan Alter 2004-09-02 17:57:06 UTC

Work on adding support for IBM's TCPA driver for encrypting hard drives and anything else that needs to store a secured key

found here: http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/

Other information that is usefull:

Linux Journal Article talking about the driver that IBM recommends reading
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6633

NetBSD Driver that is being worked on based on the IBM one
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/rwash/projects/trusted/netbsd.html

Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-09 07:08:27 UTC

An article on how to make ebuilds:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1

Very useful info :-)

Comment 2 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-09-10 01:39:20 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35574 ***

Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-03 02:45:32 UTC

Evan - you may of seen http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050131-newsletter.xml - help definitely wanted.