• adisbladis@lemmy.blad.is
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      Open firmware is important for trusting your boot chain. Seeing their list of partners in the article makes it look like a bunch of cloud providers want to take early boot security very seriously.

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      Security by obscurity doesn’t work. AMD knows this well, and wants to have more eyes scrutinizing the firmware.

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    How does one verify that the firmware running on you chip is actually the same as the open source code? This is kinda a trusting trust question, but I imagine it’s going to be hard to build and install this as a end user.