SUSE Linux Outlines Its Plans for Windows 8 Secure Boot

“UEFI Secure Boot is a useful technology, making it harder for attackers to hide a rootkit in the boot chain,” began Olaf Kirch, director of the SUSE Linux Enterprise department in SUSE Engineering, in a blog post on Wednesday. “At the same time, already the basics of its operation--establishing a single root of trust--conflict with the principles of Open Source development, which must be independent and distributed to work.”

Reference : http://www.suse.com/blogs/uefi-secure-boot-plan/

Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett--who originally called attention to all this back in September--has called SUSE's approach “a wonderfully elegant solution.”

Reference: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/15818.html