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aortega
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Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Bo...
Maybe they meant "HMAC" or "Fingerprint".
pgeorgi
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Intel likes to use SHA256(pubkey) for their verification schemes. I guess that reduces the amount of storage while sufficiently secure.
Details are in
http://apress.com/9781430265719
geofft
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"Hash" is a perfectly valid term, although "fingerprint" would also be correct. "HMAC" is something else entirely.
Dylan16807
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You don't need an HMAC to verify a key or other blob of data, and isn't fingerprint a less technical term for hash?
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