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UEFI, Secure Boot, and Trusted Execution

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UEFI, Secure Boot, and Trusted Execution

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- [Instructor] I want to talk about a couple topics, in the realm of secure computing. The first one is the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. This is a replacement for the common PC BIOS. It's a specification for a user interface that goes between the firmware and the operating system. This is where you do things like show that you have hard drives attached, what boot order you want them to boot up in. Those are the sort of things you configure in the interface. UEFI has some new functionality. There's functionality like booting from large disks over to terabytes, and booting from drives that have GUI Partition Tables. But there's something else it brings to the table, which is even more powerful. That is the ability to Secure Boot. We go about securing the boot-strapping phase by using Public Key Cryptography. And we use this PKI, this Public Key Infrastructure, with the support of hardware vendors, software vendors, operating system vendors, who all use these keys that start…

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