Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 07:40:31PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> What "vendor" is there in this case?  You released a signed shim, as did
> the Linux Foundation, and lots of distros are now using it, and there
> are absolutly no "orginization" behind a bunch of them.  Will your
> signed shim be revoked because a random PoC was posted somewhere that
> could be used with any kernel booted using it?

No, because the version I released doesn't allow you to boot stuff 
without there having been explicit end-user authorisation in advance. 
The LF loader is in the same situation. But no user-focused distribution 
is going to do that.

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