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tinus_hn on March 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that c...

If you’re not doing this as a hack but to get more control over your own processor, you can just turn off secure boot, it’s a bios setting.

usr1106 on March 20, 2021 [–]

Sure. But preferably install your own keys and sign bootloader and operating system yourself if you run untrusted code on the machine.

monocasa on March 20, 2021 | [–]

You can't install your own microcode signing key. Only intel's is provided, and it's in unmodifiable mask ROM.

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