Questions tagged [secure-boot]
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High Availability Boot processes and only using code-signing certificates
High Availability Boot (HAB) is a technique described here in an NxP application note. This is best summarised as:
"HAB authentication is based on public key cryptography using the RSA algorithm in ...
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How much of the system is secure boot going to cover?
Background: We're developing for a Debian 9.8 system on an x86, but most of us here are more used to dealing with embedded devices.
according to wikipedia, secure boot can "secure the boot process ...
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Should I Pursue Platform-Ownership?
the context is this introduction in an HP whitepaper. I'm inquiring about "platform-ownership" within the Secure-Boot environment.
I'm looking for a simplified summary of platform-ownership. Much of ...
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Secure Boot - Verifying applications
I have been reading up on Secure Boot, in particular what it actually checks during the boot process.
According to Microsoft the Secure Boot process works as follows:
Firmware Boot Components: The ...
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Secure Boot - Usage of blacklist DB
I have been reading up on the details of Secure Boot, in particular the authorized and forbidden databases:
Before enabling UEFI Secure Boot (by setting the PK) the white and black lists DB & ...
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Secure way to sign virtualbox module for secure boot
I'm not sure if the Virtualbox version from the repository of my Linux distribution is already signed and works right away, but since it's not up-to-date I'm installing Virtualbox from the official ...
