A few things have happened recently.
These include the publication of errata C of the UEFI2.3.1 specification at www.uefi.org. One interesting update in that document includes support for network booting additional architecture types. See "Processor Architecture Types" at http://www.ietf.org/assignments/dhcpv6-parameters/dhcpv6-parameters.txt. Notable additions in that list include PowerPC and ARM64, along with reconciling some earlier conflicts between the UEFI specification and early RFC's. This update, along with http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5970.txt, allows for rich network bootstrap opportunities.
In addition to the UEFI and IETF updates, a YouTube video of "Security & Personal Computing" was just posted to the intelchannel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ505uz1TZ4. In this talk I provide a broad overview of some the efforts underway in the industry around platform protection.
On that same topic, my presentation proposal http://toorcamp.org/content12/33 for ToorCamp 2012 was accepted. The entire schedule of talks can be found at http://toorcamp.org/talks. Dan "I broke DNS" Kaminsky is speaking that same day http://toorcamp.org/content12/28, and the speaker immediately prior to my talk http://toorcamp.org/content12/2 will discuss hacking measured and UEFI secure boot. It should be interesting.
These include the publication of errata C of the UEFI2.3.1 specification at www.uefi.org. One interesting update in that document includes support for network booting additional architecture types. See "Processor Architecture Types" at http://www.ietf.org/assignments/dhcpv6-parameters/dhcpv6-parameters.txt. Notable additions in that list include PowerPC and ARM64, along with reconciling some earlier conflicts between the UEFI specification and early RFC's. This update, along with http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5970.txt, allows for rich network bootstrap opportunities.
In addition to the UEFI and IETF updates, a YouTube video of "Security & Personal Computing" was just posted to the intelchannel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ505uz1TZ4. In this talk I provide a broad overview of some the efforts underway in the industry around platform protection.
On that same topic, my presentation proposal http://toorcamp.org/content12/33 for ToorCamp 2012 was accepted. The entire schedule of talks can be found at http://toorcamp.org/talks. Dan "I broke DNS" Kaminsky is speaking that same day http://toorcamp.org/content12/28, and the speaker immediately prior to my talk http://toorcamp.org/content12/2 will discuss hacking measured and UEFI secure boot. It should be interesting.
