Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform...
by hashhar on Saturday March 04, 2017 @08:20AM
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Am I missing something here?
> Secure Boot, which even now requires FOSS users to purchase a license from Microsoft to boot FOSS on affected machines that lack an appropriate Secure Boot override.
I recently installed rEFInd from source by using a self-singed certificate (signed the binary using it and enrolled the key into the EFI using mokutil) and it worked. I certainly didn't have to pay MS. I do know that rEFInd provides a key of their own (using the distro's shim) that obviously has trust rooted at MS.
> Secure Boot, which even now requires FOSS users to purchase a license from Microsoft to boot FOSS on affected machines that lack an appropriate Secure Boot override.
I recently installed rEFInd from source by using a self-singed certificate (signed the binary using it and enrolled the key into the EFI using mokutil) and it worked. I certainly didn't have to pay MS. I do know that rEFInd provides a key of their own (using the distro's shim) that obviously has trust rooted at MS.