German government issues white paper on secure boot [LWN.net]

German government issues white paper on secure boot

Posted Nov 28, 2012 3:34 UTC (Wed) by pjones (subscriber, #31722)
Parent article: German government issues white paper on secure boot

Eh, not really. They stuck a bit in the introductory paragraph saying that the white paper is also about Secure Boot, but everything else seems to be entirely tailored to TCG/TPM implementations.

Seems like mentioning SB was really last minute and not particularly well thought out.

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German government issues white paper on secure boot

Posted Nov 28, 2012 12:21 UTC (Wed) by jejb (subscriber, #6654) [Link]

It's an update of their original paper on trusted computing

https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Siche...

The main changes are actually adding reference to secure boot, the section on complete control by device owners, the section on Freedom to Decide and a couple of other things.

Overall, I think it's quite considered. It has been brewing for quite a long period of time (it was hoped that this would be published over a year ago when the Secure Boot problems were just beginning)