[mythtv-users] OT - UEFI, Secure Boot, Fedora and nVidia drivers

[Ben Kamen]

On 2012-06-26 2:53 PM, Lawrence Rust wrote:
>
> I believe that the new Ubuntu loader should work with any Linux system.
> The loader will be signed with M$'s key so that it's universally
> bootable and then chain to Grub, if found.  After that it's business as
> normal.  So you should be able to use this to boot Fedora and unsigned
> Nvidia drivers.  The only change for a new install would be a
> pre-install of the the boot loader from CD/USB followed by a normal
> install.
>
> Fedora will hopefully provide something similar, but they are yet to
> confirm.

Doesn't that invalidate the concept of the trust chain?

How can Microsoft sign a key that at some point allows booting an OS that's insecure?

(maybe I'm not getting the whole purpose of the UEFI goal)

  -Ben