From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SfS35-0004NA-Ra for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:38:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67B9AE077C; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14541E0747 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D6F21101 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:37:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=binarywings.net; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=UStWs5wEbcyyHXYzHcmKkOYN /MY=; b=IEaVAtUxl+saL8lkSnazHNQokrcIHnW2haQbtW88NATsO0OfoDwljy88 BF0QXN1eXpwzs+cBgPU4/b54Nc4taNoWwF/1dA0x5WtiZNbW4ygtW0pR68ngPpEB XEJ6xuuRTVgWweyjLQKD4RGncQBKfYF1r8UQDv0rjfbpVSRi0AA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=UStW s5wEbcyyHXYzHcmKkOYN/MY=; b=Kkp+62R6/7+tl+eqTtWBW1sMpITiKnKSDtiJ nBzqYFIS5/XAkCNIJKBo3oxhUpUQTaiXfK89VNYEYIk4pu7aU5sdH7SAUJ150Vxq kuhKjVw+OShTtIFfQ7ZDxsR4eFlOl4WDcuI6dY7jnjIQPlJBEdDOl+ONKMrWL2c5 WE+iarc= X-Sasl-enc: ZtiXdKSs3u/++aKdAe1cBYFdRqTVmFntzqAUOgF0KZEd 1339749431 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (unknown [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C9553482775 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:37:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FDAF42E.9010304@binarywings.net> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:37:02 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120602 Thunderbird/10.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo References: <20120615042810.GA9480@kroah.com> <4FDAEB22.4010109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FDAEB22.4010109@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB86EEC687DDE03A9ED3C916C" X-Archives-Salt: c461bd0f-b3b6-46f3-ab44-7781bda82d66 X-Archives-Hash: bc769681cbedc960aff9791130298d42 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB86EEC687DDE03A9ED3C916C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 15.06.2012 09:58, schrieb Richard Farina: > On 06/15/2012 03:12 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 15 June 2012 13:24, Arun Raghavan wrote: >>> On 15 June 2012 10:33, Ben de Groot wrote: >>>> On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan wrote= : >>>>> On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH wrote: >>>>>> So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty.= >>>>>> >>>>>> Minor details like, "do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft= to >>>>>> sign our bootloader?" is one aspect from the non-technical side th= at I've >>>>>> been wondering about. >>>>> >>>>> Sounds like something the Gentoo Foundation could do. >>>> >>>> I'm certainly not the only one who would be averse to paying Microso= ft >>>> any ransom money. >>> >>> And our refusal to pay for the signing affects precisely nobody excep= t >>> for our users, who will have to jump through an extra hoop to make >>> their system work. >>> >>> On the flip side, having a simple way to use this infrastructure mean= s >>> that people who care about security can get a chain of trust from the= >>> firmware to the kernel (heck, maybe even userspace one day). This is >>> something that is worth having as well. >> >> I agree that security is a worthwhile goal. I just don't trust Microso= ft. >> > It's more of a "pay us or your system can't boot" that I'm opposed to. > Saying "I just don't trust Microsoft" is second to "I just don't trust > corporations that extort money from me just so I can boot". I don't > care who we are paying, I'm offended by the idea. If users can't build= > their own fully functional boot loader that's an issue. >=20 > I'm all for the signed "work-around signatures" idea as it is the least= > objectionable... if such a thing is even possible. >=20 > -Zero >=20 It is the most objectionable idea *I* can think of. Most importantly because it puts the Dev who volunteers to prove his or her identity to Verisign into a huge legal risk: Secure Boot is designed to prevent root kits. And whether you like it or not, it achieves this goal since it is a well designed system with few potential flaws. That means providing signature work-arounds which include your actual real name and other identifiable records (as they have to contain your public key) makes you an accessory to computer crime= s. Besides, it wouldn't work long. They can blacklist keys. This isn't a half-arsed pseudo-secure system like DVD-CSS or WEP. We cannot break it in a 10 minute mailing list discussion. We have to play by the rules or don't play at all. Everything else will require years or decades of research. 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