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

Dave Airlie
2013-02-27T21:32:00Z

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:54:51AM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
>> No, no, no. Quit saying nobody knows. We've got a pretty good idea -
>> we've got a contract with them, and it says they provide the signing
>> service, and under circumstances where the thing being signed is found
>> to enable malware that circumvents Secure Boot
>
> The question is what does "malware that circuments Secure Boot" mean?
> Does starting up a hacked KVM and running Windows 8 under KVM so that
> malare can be injected count as circumenting Secure Boot? If so, will
> you have to disable KVM, too?
>
> What if someone implements a virtualization bootkit for Windows 8.
> Will they revoke their own key? Somehow, I doubt that....

Have you noticed that laptops rarely come with virtualisation enabled
in the BIOS?

Now you know why.

Dave.