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Microsoft is a good UEFI Ecosystem Partner

A colleague brought the following Microsoft Security Advisory to my attention, that says “Microsoft is revoking the digital signature for four private, third-party UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) modules that could be loaded during UEFI Secure Boot.”

The Promise and Practice of UEFI for Full Disk Encryption

When I first heard about UEFI a few years ago I thought it was a great idea. It could make life easier in the long run for developers of full disk encryption to provide advanced authentication and maintenance features for their customers. With this in mind I joined WinMagic up to UEFI.org. Having implemented pre-boot authentication on Apple Macs, which used EFI, we were already familiar with UEFI’s predecessor.

The promise and practice of UEFI for Full Disk Encryption

When I first heard about UEFI a few years ago I thought it was a great idea. It could make life easier in the long run for developers of full disk encryption to provide advanced authentication and maintenance features for their customers. With this in mind I joined WinMagic up to UEFI.org. Having implemented pre-boot authentication on Apple Macs, which used EFI, we were already familiar with UEFI’s predecessor.

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