[uefi-secure-boot-guide] master: Added explaination of shim (7853c73)

sparks at fedoraproject.org sparks at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 31 20:09:40 UTC 2013


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

On branch  : master

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commit 7853c734e91a9e9cca5275c5a75339e6b0ba5dbd
Author: Eric Christensen <sparks at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 31 14:42:11 2013 -0500

    Added explaination of shim


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 en-US/Tools.xml |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en-US/Tools.xml b/en-US/Tools.xml
index 47dfe06..244652c 100644
--- a/en-US/Tools.xml
+++ b/en-US/Tools.xml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 	<section id="sect-UEFI_Secure_Boot_Guide-Tools-shim">
 		<title>Shim</title>
 		<para>
+			Shim is the cryptographically signed software that creates the trust between the UEFI firmware and GRUB and the kernel software.  Shim is cryptographically signed by Verisign (via Microsoft) so that the UEFI firmware will cryptographically recognize the &PRODUCT; system and allow the software to continue through the boot process.  The shim validates GRUB and kernel though a cryptographic verification based on a &PRODUCT; key used to sign all three.
 		</para>
 	</section>
         <section id="sect-UEFI_Secure_Boot_Guide-Tools-pesign">



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