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Understanding Windows 11 new security requirements with David Weston

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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The Difference Between Secure Boot and Trusted Boot

Secure boot is where you are validating, through signing certificates and signing keys, that all the components of boots r either from your platform vender or signed by microsopanu. Trusted boot adds an additional layer where not only do you have the signing inpo structure, but you get additional measurements, which are a provided into things called pc registers. And then the operating system can use those measurements to take action. So for example, if you ever saw the dreaded bot bit locker a recovery screen, that's usually because a component on your system that was previously measured in has changed.

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