Re: UEFI bootkit

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El vie, 21-09-2012 a las 08:58 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz escribió:
On 21.09.2012 07:42, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 21.09.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: 
>
>>> To be able to boot any other system than Windows, you have to turn
>>> off secure boot or you could use your own keys signed by Microsoft.
>>> It's not (U)EFI which is the problem, it's the "secure boot".
>> AAAhhh!! NOW I think I understand!......
> You can boot Fedora 18 with (U)EFI and secure boot turned on, of
> course. Because the Fedora kernel and programs are signed with a
> Fedora key, which itself is signed by M$.
>
> If you want to have "old-style" Fedora, you'll have to turn off secure
> boot.
>
>
>

Sorry for my maybe stupid question but why there must my Microsoft's key
on motherboard and not Fedora's one? Why Linux vendors don't intend to
install theirs keys to revers the situation so that Microsoft would have
to sign the keys? Or maybe keys from M$ and Fedora could coexist?


Mateusz Marzantowicz


As far as I know, both keys  (Microsoft and Fedora)  can coexist.


Regards,
Lailah

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