Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues
Date	2016-03-14 10:29 +0100
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On 2016-03-14 09:09, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote:
> On 2016-03-14, Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> wrote:

> IIUC correctly, that means that if you got "Windows 10 Certified blah
> blah" machine you may not be able to install Linux on it unless you
> replace firmware which may be hard or impossible in practice.

No. You simply need Linux install media and boot procedures that are
signed properly.

The signatures or certificates, as far as I know, are kept by Microsoft,
yes, but not owned by them, and they are either free or very cheap. And
it is Microsoft because that's the certificate authority all
manufacturers install, but there could be others. In fact, you should be
able to create your own certificate and install it into your computer
firmware; if you can't, it is a broken implementation of UEFI. Which is
the real problem: broken or restricted implementations.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/SecureBoot

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI

http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.en.html

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Cheers, Carlos.

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EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-12 21:02 -0800
  Re: UEFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-03-13 11:28 +0100
  Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> - 2016-03-13 19:37 +0000
    Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-13 18:37 -0700
      Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-03-14 02:51 +0000
        Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> - 2016-03-14 08:09 +0000
          Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-03-14 10:29 +0100
          Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2016-03-14 10:41 +0000
      Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-14 10:01 +0000
        Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues dlbendigo  <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-03-15 08:42 +1100

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