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

Greg KH
2013-02-26T03:39:43Z

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:28:39AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:25:08PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:13:38AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > >
> > > Because Microsoft have indicated that they'd be taking a reactive
> > > approach to blacklisting and because, so far, nobody has decided to
> > > write the trivial proof of concept that demonstrates the problem.
> >
> > Microsoft would take a severe hit both from a PR perspective, as well
> > as incurring significant legal risks if they did that in certain
> > jourisdictions --- in particular, I suspect in Europe, if Microsoft
> > were to break the ability of Linux distributions from booting, it
> > would be significantly frowned upon.
>
> If a Linux vendor chose to knowingly breach the obligations they agreed
> to, you don't think there'd be any PR hit?

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?

thanks,

greg k-h