[uefi-secure-boot-guide] master: Revert "Distinguish between our SB implementation's goals and its mechanism." (38da5b7)

sparks at fedoraproject.org sparks at fedoraproject.org
Fri Mar 1 17:32:20 UTC 2013


Repository : http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=docs/uefi-secure-boot-guide.git

On branch  : master

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commit 38da5b7757b0fd79be6890e9fad3a2e4958208e5
Author: Eric Christensen <sparks at redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 1 12:32:04 2013 -0500

    Revert "Distinguish between our SB implementation's goals and its mechanism."
    
    This reverts commit 98a35806489df4ad4ff27e3344881259d1813224.


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 en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml b/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
index 2cb46da..86eedd1 100644
--- a/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
+++ b/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
@@ -428,10 +428,7 @@ AuthentiCode.
 <title>&PRODUCT; Secure Boot</title>
 <para>
 The &PRODUCT; Secure Boot implementation has a single security
-objective: it prevents installation of a class of malware known as
-<firstterm>boot kits</firstterm> that infect the boot path of the
-machine.  In order to do this, it prevents the execution of unsigned code,
-starting in the boot process and extending to the kernel and its modules.
+objective: it prevents the execution of unsigned code in kernel mode.
 </para>
 <para>
 &PRODUCT; can boot on systems with Microsoft Secure Boot enabled,



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