Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:22:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46557 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504150422.t3F4MrHO013509@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Wed Apr 15 04:22:53 2015 New Revision: 46557 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46557 Log: Add Secure Boot report Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 04:12:19 2015 (r46556) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 04:22:53 2015 (r46557) @@ -2126,4 +2126,53 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> two were taken in for safe-keeping.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='proj'> + <title>Secure Boot</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Edward Tomasz</given> + <common>Napierała</common> + </name> + <email>trasz@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>UEFI Secure Boot is a mechanism that requires boot + drivers and operating system loaders to be cryptographically + signed by an authorized key. It will refuse to execute any + software that is not correctly signed, and is intended to secure + boot drivers and operating system loaders from malicious + tampering or replacement.</p> + + <p>The utility to add Authenticode signatures to EFI files, + uefisign(8), was committed to 11-CURRENT and will ship in + 10.2-RELEASE. Ports for other open source utilities were added + to the Ports Collection, as <tt>sysutils/pesign</tt>, + <tt>sysutils/sbsigntool</tt>, and <tt>sysutils/shim</tt>. There + is a prototype patch that makes boot1 use the Secure Boot shim, and + modifies the shim to provide the functionality necessary + for a successful bootstrap.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Finalize the shim API extension and get it accepted + upstream.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Commit boot1 changes.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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