[haiku-development] Re: Should Haiku, Inc. sign the FSF SecureBoot petition?

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:26:21 +0100

On 29/12/2012 17:37, Paul Davey wrote:
> SecureBoot itself is not really the problem, its the inability to add
> trusted keys to the system or boot anything else by any means that is.
> If its possible to use the M$ bootloader to chainload another system then
> that can work though is dependent on M$ keeping such a feature, and if its
> possible to add new trusted keys then its possible to add one for a signed
> haiku bootloader,

That's all theory and dependent on M$'s benevolence, which we all know
is great.

> also nothing says the key has to come from M$.

That's the problem, in theory we could make our own keys, but they will
never be included in hardware by vendors unless they come from M$ since
they don't care about us anyway.


François.

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