Making UEFI Secure Boot Work With Open Platforms (Linux Foundation)

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“Secure boot” is a technology described by recent revisions of the UEFI specification; it offers
the prospect of a hardware-verified, malware-free operating system bootstrap process that can
improve the security of many system deployments. Linux and other open operating systems will
be able to take advantage of secure boot if it is implemented properly in the hardware. This
document is intended to describe how the UEFI secure boot specification can be implemented to
interoperate well with open systems and to avoid adversely affecting the rights of the owners of
those systems while providing compliance with proprietary software vendors’ requirements.
<pdf:> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/lf_uefi_secure_boot_open_platforms.pdf

hattip:
Opinion (by Jesse Smith)
Secure boot for Linux?
Last week the Linux Foundation released a paper (PDF) by James Bottomley and Jonathan Corbet, both members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board. Which suggests that everyone can have their cake and eat it too.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20111128