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Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security

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658 points transpute | 1 comments | 06 May 23 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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discerning_ ◴[06 May 23 18:40 UTC] No.35844121[source]▶
If these keys are leaked, they should be adopted by open source projects to disable secure boot.
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fowtowmowcow ◴[06 May 23 19:08 UTC] No.35844425[source]▶
I'm not sure that they can of the key is proprietary to Intel. I think this would open up those projects to litigation.
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1. realusername ◴[06 May 23 20:13 UTC] No.35844974[source]▶
> I'm not sure that they can of the key is proprietary to Intel. I think this would open up those projects to litigation

Depends of the legislation.

That's questionable in the US since the keys are 100% machine generated and thus not copyrightable.

In most of the EU, it's clear though, there's interobability exceptions and those keys can be shared freely.