Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!omx!SteveX From: SteveX@omx.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Executing a program for bootblock (Was: Locking the Amiga) Message-ID: Date: 21 Jan 91 14:02:40 GMT References: <6145@berry12.UUCP> Organization: Artech Digital Entertainments Inc. Lines: 18 In article dej@qpoint.amiga.ocunix.on.ca (David Jones) writes: >Sorry to say this, but hard drives don't have bootblocks. In a way, that >is an advantage because they can't get bootblock viruses. As far as >passwords go, your best bet for a secure system would be to write >a device that calls hddisk.device (or whatever) and encrypts/decrypts >info from a partition other than the boot partition. The encryption >key could be derived from a user password. They don't have bootblocks, they have "RigidDiskBlocks", and that's where the filesystem lives. It would be possible to write an alternate file system to there, and have it load the real file system after some sort of verification - that would be an interesting project. Certainly not one I'd want to get into. -- ...Steve Tibbett...bix=s.tibbett...Plink=STEVEX...BBS=613-731-3419... ...VirusX=4.01...Insert Disclaimer Here...