Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Jun 2012 23:17 UTC
After Fedora, Ubuntu has now also announced how it's going to handle the nonsense called "Secure" Boot. The gist: they'll use the same key as Fedora, but they claim they can't use GRUB2. "In the event that a manufacturer makes a mistake and delivers a locked-down system with a GRUB 2 image signed by the Ubuntu key, we have not been able to find legal guidance that we wouldn't then be required by the terms of the GPLv3 to disclose our private key in order that users can install a modified boot loader. At that point our certificates would of course be revoked and everyone would end up worse off." So, they're going to use the more liberally licensed efilinux loader from Intel. Only the bootloader will be signed; the kernel will not.
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RE[7]: Comment by Lazarus
by Alfman on Sat 23rd Jun 2012 05:38
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Member since:2011-01-28
mjg59,
"Microsoft require that all x86 systems permit the user to modify the keys. They forbid that on ARM, so we won't be supporting secure boot on ARM."
Well that's great to hear that the keys can be overridden and not just disabled! Your earlier statement makes more sense to me now.
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2005-10-17
Microsoft require that all x86 systems permit the user to modify the keys. They forbid that on ARM, so we won't be supporting secure boot on ARM.