measured-boot
3 posts tagged measured-boot.
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Measured Boot: The TCG Event Log from SRTM to PCR-Bound BitLocker
How Windows turns every byte of firmware, every signed boot manager, and every loaded driver into a single 32-byte hash that decides whether BitLocker unlocks your disk -- and why patching that chain breaks it.
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Secure Boot in Windows: The Chain From Sector Zero to Userinit, and Every Place It Has Broken
How Windows verifies and measures itself from CPU reset to logon, every rung of the boot chain, every public break, and what Pluton is being built to fix.
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The TPM in Windows: One Primitive, Twenty-Five Years, and the Chip Microsoft Bet On Twice
How a passive 1999 cryptoprocessor became the load-bearing pillar of Windows security, and what twenty-five years of attacks taught us about its limits.