Matthew Garrett ([personal profile] mjg59) wrote 2012-06-08 11:36 am (UTC)

Re: What happens if Microsoft's keys are stolen?

You won't need new keys in that scenario. The binaries are signed with a key that's chained back to the trusted key. If the signing key somehow leaks (and really that is not a terribly likely thing to happen) then that key can be invalidated and a new signing key produced that chains back to the same trusted key. Binaries signed with the new key will continue to be trusted by existing firmware.

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