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No private keys were leaked; however a signed policy file, that lets you disable the protections within secureboot was discovered and repurposed. Its not so mu
by 45h34jh53k4j 10y ago
No private keys were leaked; however a signed policy file, that lets you disable the protections within secureboot was discovered and repurposed.
Its not so much a backdoor key, but an overly permissive mechanism within microsofts secureboot implementation that could be used to implement a backdoor within the system.
A similar analogy in the CA world would be when the Microsoft Terminal Server Licensing CA (which accepted user submitted signing requests) was signing certificates that worked in other contexts (ie: https). This didn't break the CA system globally just one overly permissive implementation.
- lawnchair_larry 10y agoYeah, I see now, thanks to the other source. The Register's misuse of "key" followed by excessive drivel in that article had me navigating away with the wrong impression before I could make the connection.