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Previously in 2023 Intel lost it's private UEFI key on the MSI hack. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35843566

This time it's AMI. Cannot get bigger.




I'm not sure it's reasonable to just treat it as an AMI problem, given that AMI literally named the key "DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK". Obviously AMI was stupid to trust the OEMs to, you know, have a clue what they were doing and replace a wired-in test key in their production builds... but it's also true that, even if AMI should have known that the OEMs are idiots, the OEMs are still idiots.

I suppose you could also break it down and say that the particular idiot who hardwired a test key in an SDK or whatever should have known that both the rest of AMI and everybody at the OEMs would be idiots, and found a way to make it relatively hard for them to stay with that key. But however far you dig, it's idiots all the way down.


You are right, idiots all the way down. AMI should have created a PK generation script for those idiots. And you need such a script, because everything which can go wrong will go wrong. E.g they'll generate keys with 2044 bits, or such.




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