Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting Announcement Who: Vincent Zimmer, Intel What: UEFI Secure Boot and Open Source. It's not a 'general war against computation.' Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, October 4th, 2012 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of awesome, open technologies.
See location H-10 on the PSU map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg As 2012 platform firmware embraces UEFI 2.3.1 and ACPI5.0 support, the ability to interoperate with UEFI Secure Boot is imperative. This poses a unique challenge for open software that may not come pre-installed on the platform. With UEFI Secure Boot, though, infrastructure has been put in place to preserve openness, owner choice and control in addition to mitigating concerns of malware targeting the platform. This talk will provide a history of UEFI Secure Boot, an overview of the implementation, deployment practices, and details on the engagement with the open source community. Vincent Zimmer is a Principal Engineer with Intel Corporation. He has been working on various platform, networking, trusted computing and security technologies around EFI since 1999 and platform firmware since 1992. Vincent has spoken in various forums on this topic, co-authored 3 books, 10 papers, and several specifications in this area. Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250462851 PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxLinux.org/ Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30 Announcements 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation and Questions 9:00 - ... Refreshments The Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby Portland, Oregon Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer See you there! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
