Debian plans for UEFI Secure Boot

Steve McIntyre of the Debian Project posted a message to the Debian-EFI list, with plans for getting Debian to support UEFI Secure Boot. A summary of the main steps:

1. Generate a key and an EV code-signing cert, submit to Microsoft
2. dak changes to support upload and signing of EFI executables
3. Prepare and upload a package of the ‘shim’ EFI boot loader
4. Updates for other core packages to add signed versions
 * grub2
 * linux
 * fwupdate
 * ???
5. Minor tweaks to other places to make use of the signed packages
 * d-i
 * debian-cd
 * debian-live
 * ???

Full status message and more information:
https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot
https://lists.debian.org/debian-efi/2016/04/msg00002.html

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