From: Florian Weimer <fw-d32yF4oPJVt0XxTmqZlbVQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/18 v3] Signature verification of hibernate snapshot
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:01:51 +0200
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* Chun-Yi Lee:

>  + EFI bootloader must generate RSA key-pair when system boot:
>    - Bootloader store the public key to EFI boottime variable by itself
>    - Bootloader put The private key to S4SignKey EFI variable for forward to
>      kernel.

Is the UEFI NVRAM really suited for such regular updates?