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An update on UEFI secure boot

An update on UEFI secure boot

Posted Nov 7, 2011 0:23 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: An update on UEFI secure boot by foom
Parent article: An update on UEFI secure boot

That's something it allows, yes. But it also allows you to assume that nothing has modified system state before you start the kernel, which means that if the first piece of userspace you start is a virus checker you know that the answers it gets from the kernel can be trusted.


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