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Present user test

Present user test

Posted Oct 11, 2012 13:21 UTC (Thu) by pjones (guest, #31722)
In reply to: Present user test by dgm
Parent article: The Linux Foundation's UEFI secure boot system

No. The entire point of requiring user input - and in both cases it should be non-trivial user input - is to prove that there's a live user present. If something is deployed that wildly circumvents that, the likely outcome is that a hash of the binary in question winds up on the blacklist.


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