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Re:How Windows 10 Rewrites OS Architecture: Battle of SKM an... by ossreality on Friday October 23, 2015 @05:10PM (#10441320)
Don't you need SecureBoot to start the process of the measured boot?
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Re:How Windows 10 Rewrites OS Architecture: Battle of SKM an... by mjg59 on Saturday October 24, 2015 @02:53AM (#10442728)
No, Secure Boot only comes into play at the point where the firmware starts executing external code (option ROMs or bootloaders). You need to start measurement way before that.
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