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Discussions and reports about UEFI and Secure Boot has cropped up in many Linux circles, but can anyone summarize it's impacts on Ubuntu and how it affects the general users? I know that UEFI and Secure Boot are separate (not interchangeable), with Secure Boot being a part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface BIOS specification. PS I do know how it affects Ubuntu, this question is for the benefit of public knowledge. |
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There was a plenary talk about that during UDS by Jeremy Kerr. The presentation was based on a document that he has been co-authored with Matthew Garrett and James Bottomley. You can find that document here. My two cents are that it's a system to verify that the software you're using to boot your machine has been signed by using an authorized signature available in an internal database. This isn't dangerous as long as there is a way for you to edit the database of valid signatures. However, a big industry player seems to want OEMs to include only one signature in the database and no way to update it and that's the big problem since no other OS would be able to boot in a hardware in which those restrictions have been applied. |
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