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The whole point of signing everything from the bootloader on down is to make sure that even ring 0 control over the computer can't persist through a reboot. Allowing signatures to work the way it was suggested would break any hope of something like Secure Boot ever working. As it is you're already trusting timestamping certificates to effectively live forever.



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