Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:21:42
Message-Id: 87395tycd2.fsf@einstein.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo by Sascha Cunz
1 Sascha Cunz <sascha-ml@×××××××××.org> writes:
2
3 > You've said yourself, that "some removable media might not require signatures"
4 > in order to boot. Well, if that is the case, then isn't this defeating the
5 > whole point of Secure Boot at that stage?
6
7 Not necessarily. As has been stated previously, secure boot is not
8 intended to protect against an attacker who has physical access. So even
9 if allowing boot from removable media, it does protect against malware
10 which corrupts/infects the hard drive boot image.