Re: Trusted kernel patchset for Secure Boot lockdown

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 14:11 -0400, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> The fact that you keep saying measured really does make me suspect that
> you misunderstand the problem. There's no measurement involved, there's
> simply an assertion that the firmware (which you're forced to trust)
> chose, via some policy you may be unaware of, to trust the booted
> kernel.

As an example, imagine a platform with the bootloader and kernel on
read-only media. The platform can assert that the kernel is trusted even
if there's no measurement of the kernel.

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