{"id":1621,"date":"2011-11-06T01:31:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2012-10-17T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T19:22:07","slug":"protecting-the-pre-os-environment-with-uefi-building-windows-8-site-home-msdn-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the pre-OS environment with UEFI"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h4>Quick summary<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>UEFI allows firmware to implement a security policy<\/li>\n<li>Secure boot is a UEFI protocol not a Windows 8 feature<\/li>\n<li>UEFI secure boot is part of Windows 8 secured boot architecture<\/li>\n<li>Windows 8 utilizes secure boot to ensure that the pre-OS environment is secure<\/li>\n<li>Secure boot doesn\u2019t \u201clock out\u201d operating system loaders, but is a policy that allows firmware to validate authenticity of components<\/li>\n<li>OEMs have the ability to customize their firmware to meet the needs of their customers by customizing the level of certificate and policy management on their platform<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft does not mandate or control the settings on PC firmware that control or enable secured boot from any operating system other than Windows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\/archive\/2011\/09\/22\/protecting-the-pre-os-environment-with-uefi.aspx\">Protecting the pre-OS environment with UEFI &#8211; Building Windows 8 &#8211; Site Home &#8211; MSDN Blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick summary UEFI allows firmware to implement a security policy Secure boot is a UEFI protocol not a Windows 8 feature UEFI secure boot is part of Windows 8 secured boot architecture Windows 8 utilizes secure boot to ensure that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[218,107,778],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-issues","tag-bios","tag-reference","tag-tpm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7612,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/7612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}