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Patina: a Rust implementation of UEFI firmware

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131 points hasheddan | 1 comments | 10 Oct 25 21:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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treffer ◴[11 Oct 25 10:25 UTC] No.45547992[source]▶
Interesting. But who is OpenDevicePartnership?

Looking at the members on the repository this seems to be a Microsoft project?

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mariuolo ◴[11 Oct 25 11:45 UTC] No.45548383[source]▶
Can one even do UEFI firmware projects without at least keeping Microsoft in the loop?

As far as I remmeber, they control the issuance of keys for bootloaders. Or is this project supposed to do away with that?

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1. mjg59 ◴[22 Oct 25 17:51 UTC] No.45672708[source]▶
If you want to implement UEFI secure boot and verify existing signed objects then you need to incorporate Microsoft-issued certificates into your firmware, but that's very different from needing Microsoft to be in the loop - the certificates are public, you can download them and stick them in anything.