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Enhanced Linked List Support in GNU-EFI

This post details how I significantly enhanced the double linked list support in GNU-EFI 3.0t.

Efivars and Efivarfs

This post demonstrates how to use both the new efivarfs filesystem and older efivars mechanism to create, read, write and delete (U)EFI variables.

List UEFI Secure Boot Certificate Contents

In this post, I dive deep into UEFI Authenticated Variables to show you how UEFI Secure Boot is implemented. I also provide the source code for a simple UEFI utility which outputs information about the X.509 certificates in the Secure Boot keys.

Decode Microsoft Secure Boot KEK Certificate

In this post I show you how to decode a DER encoded binary X509 certificate and use it to show you the contents of the Microsoft X509 certificate used as the UEFI Secure boot KEK for Windows 8 platforms.

Lenovo T430, T530 Now Support UEFI Secure Boot

In this post, I discuss the new Secure Boot options made available on the Lenovo T430, T430i, T530, and T530i laptops as a result of the 2.05 firmware update.