Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

[Sam Varshavchik]

Alan Cox writes:

> > certification key. That's the hood, welded shut, that's absolutely  
> mandatory
> > for a secured bootloader to have any logical purpose, whatsoever.
>
> Correct - and you need to lock it down way more than that. Also I can't
> see Red Hat directly signing third party binary blobs. If it does that it
> implicitly believes they are lawful and also acquires some liability for
> them in they malfuction.

AFAIK, Microsoft is already doing something like that with Windows drivers.  
They must be signed by Microsoft, in order to avoid a warning thrown in your  
face upon installation. I think that current Windows OS will just refuse to  
install an unsigned driver, for any hardware.


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