[kictanet] Linux Heavyweights Develop Secure Boot Strategy

[Evans Ikua]

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint
statement<http://blog.canonical.com/2011/10/28/white-paper-secure-boot-impact-on-linux/>regarding
Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of
Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar
statement<http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/making-uefi-secure-boot-work-with-open-platforms>
.

We first covered this
issue<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft%E2%80%99s-take-uefi-may-impede-linux-and-that%E2%80%99s-being-polite>in
September.
The joint Red Hat and Canonical statement opens with an assessment of the
situation:

*The UEFI specification for secure boot does not define who controls the
boot restrictions on UEFI platforms, leaving the platform implementer in
control of the exact security model. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s recommended
implementation of secure boot removes control of the system from the
hardware owner, and may prevent open source operating systems from
functioning. The Windows 8 requirement for secure boot will pressure OEMs
to implement secure boot in this fashion.

Please read more
here<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-heavyweights-develop-secure-boot-strategy>
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