Re: Secure boot

Pau Garcia i Quiles <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
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> From your blogpost...
> "Given that there is no Secure Boot Certification Authority, Microsoft
> asked BIOS (UEFI) developers and manufacturers to include their
> certificates, which looks 100% logical to me. The fact that Linux
> distributions do not have such power is unfortunate, but it is not
> Microsoft’s fault at all."
>
> It is just an accident. They just asked for their certificates to be
> included. They didn't do anything wrong. I've watched Microsoft pull
> this for years...do whatever they can get away with. Include
> Microsoft's proprietary and partially implemented OOXML as an open
> standard? Well it came to a vote; it's not Microsoft's fault that
> their distributors crashed the proceedings.
>
>
Red Hat and others were at the working group for UEFI Secure Boot. They did
not ask for a SBCA.

Apparently everybody was talking about signing code and certificates in UEFI
but nobody put any thinking on how to get the certificates in the mainboard.


-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)


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