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From: Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:36:52
Message-Id: 4FDBAAA0.50902@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo by Greg KH
1 On 06/14/2012 11:45 PM, Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:28:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
3 >> So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty.
4 >>
5 >> Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about
6 >> Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues?
7 >>
8 >> Minor details like, "do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to
9 >> sign our bootloader?" is one aspect from the non-technical side that I've
10 >> been wondering about.
11 >
12 > Oh, and for those that don't know, I did a lot of UEFI secure boot work
13 > in the past at SUSE, and should be soon a member of the UEFI
14 > "organization" through my work at the Linux Foundation, so I do have a
15 > basic grasp of the issues involved, and have a chance to get changes
16 > made, if needed, and possible, to the spec itself.
17 >
18 > greg k-h
19 >
20 One of these days I'd like to pick your brain about some hardened UEFI
21 interactions I've seen (with pipacs watching).
22
23 --
24 -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>