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Garrett: UEFI Secure boot in Fedora: status update

Garrett: UEFI Secure boot in Fedora: status update

Posted Sep 6, 2012 23:33 UTC (Thu) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652)
In reply to: Garrett: UEFI Secure boot in Fedora: status update by iabervon
Parent article: Garrett: UEFI Secure boot in Fedora: status update

Thanks for the nice explanation, I was wondering how SuSE's shim is going to save the keys, now it is more clear. Do you know if this safe place is mandatory for all UEFI implementations?


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Garrett: UEFI Secure boot in Fedora: status update

Posted Sep 6, 2012 23:41 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

I believe it is, at least for implementations that support Secure Boot. Of course, I don't know if Microsoft or Apple will use them in their boot code, or if Windows or OS X will try to access them post-boot and freak out if that works, so it's possible that it'll be the sort of mandatory feature that doesn't actually work in practice.

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