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Foundation?Foundation?Posted Jun 6, 2012 5:55 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future by ajb Parent article: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future
The idea has been played with, but a foundation which does this needs a whole lot of money up.front (establish secure infrastructure, badger manufacturers, …)
Apparenty M$ doesn't even do the infrastructure part itself; that's been outsourced to Verisign. A sensible move, if you ask me, but it doesn't necessarily save money. Anyway, AFAIK no corporation has been forthcoming with the $$ necessary to do this. Unless that happens, we can talk about doing a Foundation (or using an existing one for this purpose) all day long, but won't accomplish anything.
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Foundation? Posted Jun 6, 2012 10:32 UTC (Wed) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
"a whole lot of money up.front (establish secure infrastructure, badger manufacturers, …)"
Euh, CA Cert secure infrastructure runs just fine thank you.
"Audit ready" could possibly be solved by throwing more money at it though.
Foundation? Posted Jun 6, 2012 12:08 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]
Exactly how many browsers get shipped with the CACert root keys pre-installed?
What makes you think they'd have any success with BIOS manufacturers?
Foundation? Posted Jun 6, 2012 12:35 UTC (Wed) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
I'm just "saying" that infrastructure is possible to achieve.
When they get audit ready, they'll be able to get into Firefox and thus Chrome and probably Windows and Opera too.
But only if they get audit done.
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