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Linus Torvalds Suggests How To Handle UEFI Secure Boot Crisis | 246 comments | Create New Account

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Linus Torvalds Suggests How To Handle UEFI Secure Boot Crisis

Authored by: jbb on Sunday, March 03 2013 @ 01:54 PM EST

This is about Linus vehemently rejecting a patch submitted by MG that allows the kernel to (optionally) trust the keys the user/owner has installed in the firmware. Which keys the user/owner chooses to trust and who signs what with which keys is a side issue that IMO got blown way out of proportion. Perhaps Linus misunderstood that those keys are controlled by the user/owner and not by Microsoft. Or maybe MG and I don't understand the point Linus was trying to make.

This is definitely not about Linus using signed modules to prevent people from loading binary Nvidia modules because Linus himself suggested self-signing so under his proposed scheme signing the binary Nvidia module is just as easy as signing any other module.

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Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Linus Torvalds Suggests How To Handle UEFI Secure Boot Crisis - Authored by: jjs on Sunday, March 03 2013 @ 04:19 PM EST
- Linus Torvalds Suggests How To Handle UEFI Secure Boot Crisis - Authored by: jjs on Monday, March 04 2013 @ 06:57 AM EST
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    - Not manufacturers, legislators - Authored by: Wol on Monday, March 04 2013 @ 11:14 AM EST
      - Not manufacturers, legislators - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 04 2013 @ 12:33 PM EST

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