Re: Major Question

Date: 2011-11-21 02:26 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] mjg59
It's public/private key cryptography. No part of the private key is ever distributed - it stays with whoever does the signing.

The "deny write to boot sector" option only does something if you're using the bios to access the disk. Nothing does that now.
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