From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:32:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120615113248.GA22231@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FDAF42E.9010304@binarywings.net>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:37:02AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote
> Besides, it wouldn't work long. They can blacklist keys.
Question... how would "blacklisting" work on linux machines? Let's
say Joe Blow gets a signing key and then passes it around. I can see
that if you want to build an executable (*.exe) to run under Windows,
you'll run into problems if the monthly MS Windows Update kills that
specific key.
How could MS do anything to linux users who used the key to get their
machine running? All I can think of is that the blacklisted keys would
be added to some encrypted table in the UEFI in future versions of the
UEFI/BIOS. Oh yeah, remember to *NOT* do unnecessary firmware updates
to your UEFI/BIOS.
As for a signed 1st-stage bootloader, is it just me, or is nobody else
concerned/paranoid about MS sticking their binary code on my machine?
We used to laugh at Sony rootkits, but that's what we could be looking
at here.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-15 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-15 4:28 [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo Greg KH
2012-06-15 4:45 ` Arun Raghavan
2012-06-15 4:56 ` Greg KH
2012-06-15 5:24 ` Arun Raghavan
2012-06-15 21:28 ` Matthew Thode
2012-06-15 5:48 ` Eray Aslan
2012-06-15 7:26 ` Michał Górny
2012-06-15 7:49 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-15 8:06 ` Richard Farina
2012-06-15 8:24 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2012-06-16 8:33 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-16 0:03 ` gregkh
2012-06-15 5:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-06-15 5:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ben de Groot
2012-06-15 5:08 ` Matthew Finkel
2012-06-15 5:24 ` Arun Raghavan
2012-06-15 7:12 ` Ben de Groot
2012-06-15 7:58 ` Richard Farina
2012-06-15 8:37 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-15 11:32 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2012-06-15 12:01 ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-15 12:48 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-16 9:22 ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-06-17 17:03 ` Greg KH
2012-06-17 19:22 ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-06-15 10:50 ` Ben de Groot
2012-06-16 0:02 ` Greg KH
2012-06-15 4:45 ` Greg KH
2012-06-15 5:48 ` Philip Webb
2012-06-16 0:01 ` Greg KH
2012-06-16 3:18 ` Philip Webb
2012-06-15 21:35 ` Matthew Thode
2012-06-16 0:00 ` Greg KH
2012-06-15 4:50 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-06-15 5:01 ` Matthew Finkel
2012-06-15 7:54 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-15 12:28 ` Walter Dnes
2012-06-15 12:55 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-16 23:37 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2012-06-17 16:58 ` Greg KH
2012-06-17 17:24 ` Dale
2012-06-16 17:51 ` Michał Górny
2012-06-17 9:20 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-17 15:51 ` Michał Górny
2012-06-17 16:55 ` Greg KH
2012-06-17 17:06 ` Michał Górny
2012-06-17 17:17 ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-17 17:28 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-17 17:56 ` Greg KH
2012-06-17 16:56 ` Matthew Finkel
2012-06-17 17:10 ` Michał Górny
2012-06-17 17:40 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-17 17:34 ` Sascha Cunz
2012-06-17 17:55 ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-17 18:00 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-17 18:56 ` Sascha Cunz
2012-06-17 19:20 ` Graham Murray
2012-06-17 20:30 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-17 23:07 ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-22 6:42 ` George Prowse
2012-06-15 4:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-06-15 12:18 ` Luca Barbato
2012-06-15 12:33 ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-15 23:56 ` Greg KH
2012-06-16 6:30 ` Michał Górny
2012-06-15 10:14 ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-15 11:26 ` Florian Philipp
2012-06-15 12:22 ` Luca Barbato
2012-06-15 12:45 ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-15 15:46 ` G.Wolfe Woodbury
2012-06-15 23:55 ` Greg KH
2012-06-16 0:41 ` Rich Freeman
2012-06-16 3:49 ` Greg KH
2012-06-16 23:52 ` Matthew Summers
2012-06-17 0:23 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
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