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An update on UEFI secure boot

An update on UEFI secure boot

Posted Oct 27, 2011 8:41 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: An update on UEFI secure boot by petur
Parent article: An update on UEFI secure boot

Windows 8 logo systems must be UEFI, but Windows 8 will boot fine with BIOS. It's probably worth remembering that there's no real concept of attestation in secure boot, so even if a future version requires both UEFI and the secure boot feature, it'd be easy to fake it up.


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