Trusted Boot in Fedora

[Björn Persson]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:01 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit :
> > > > Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user in no
> > > > worse position than they were before.
> > > 
> > > I don't call placing absolute vetting power in bios writer hands "no
> > > worse position". I don't thing anyone can point to a "good" bios on
> > > real world hardware.
> > 
> > I appreciate the disdain - no, really, trust me, I do - but you should
> > realize that SMM means you already may have no control over the machine.
> 
> Well, the fact that BIOSes aren't open source means that anyway.

That's not impossible to change though. I have never dared to try Coreboot 
myself, for fear of destroying my motherboard, but in principle it's possible 
to replace the BIOS in most current computers with a free implementation. It's 
looking like the TPM makes it impossible to replace Sinit with a free clone.

Björn Persson
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