Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Nov 01 2012 - 17:06:37 EST


On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:03:20PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 13:50 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> > What do we have to do to prevent Linux being used to attack Linux
> > which may lead to secure boot being useless.
>
> That's not really remotely related, is it? Microsoft doesn't really
> care about Linux on Linux attacks, so preventing or allowing them isn't
> going to get a distro key revoked.

Linux vendors may care about Linux on Linux attacks. It's all fun and
games until Oracle get Microsoft to revoke Red Hat's signature.

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