Fedora Pays Microsoft Boot License fee.

[Eric Shubert]

Same as other software, I'm guessing that the cert would need to be 
signed by a CA that's recognized by the UEFI software. I'm guessing that 
you wouldn't be able to modify which CAs UEFI recognizes, but if you 
can, than you could simply add your CA to the list and be good to go.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

On 06/11/2012 08:19 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
> And why you have to 'get a certificate request signed by a CA' ?
> I can do SSL all day long with a self-signed (or even expired) certificate.
> The only thing that the CA validates (the encryption will still be
> there) is that you are whom you are claiming to be, but if you don't
> care (I don't drop my credit card unless the certificate is 'validly
> signed'), I still go ahead (as happens on some I-wonder-why SSL(ed)
> Ubuntu support pages).
> I may be dumb, though...
> ET
>
>
>
> Eric Shubert writes:
>> On 06/10/2012 01:11 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>>> Microsoft responded by saying that there was no mandate from Microsoft
>>> that prevents secure booting from being disabled in firmware or that
>>> keys could not be updated and managed.
>>
>> I think this is key to understanding the situation. Anyone can easily
>> disable secure booting and people can do as they please, as they do
>> presently.
>> In order to use secure booting with an alternative OS, one simply
>> needs to get a certificate request signed by a CA (a service which
>> comes with a fee), much the same as certs are done for SSL. This would
>> be one cert per OS, not per computer. I'm not certain of the details
>> of how to do this, but this is my understanding of the process.
>> BL, if you don't want or need secure booting, things are pretty much
>> the same as they've always been. I doubt that most people would notice
>> a difference between UEFI and traditional BIOS per se. The differences
>> are largely between different vendor's implementations, as has always
>> been the case.
>> As Larry said earlier, much to say about nothing.
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
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