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On 15 June 2012 10:33, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. |
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>>> Minor details like, "do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to |
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>>> sign our bootloader?" is one aspect from the non-technical side that I've |
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>>> been wondering about. |
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>> Sounds like something the Gentoo Foundation could do. |
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> I'm certainly not the only one who would be averse to paying Microsoft |
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> any ransom money. |
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And our refusal to pay for the signing affects precisely nobody except |
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for our users, who will have to jump through an extra hoop to make |
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their system work. |
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On the flip side, having a simple way to use this infrastructure means |
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that people who care about security can get a chain of trust from the |
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firmware to the kernel (heck, maybe even userspace one day). This is |
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something that is worth having as well. |
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-- |
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Arun Raghavan |
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http://arunraghavan.net/ |
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(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME) |
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