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Author: Olaf Kirch

Olaf Kirch
By: Olaf Kirch
January 25, 2018

Meltdown and Spectre Performance

Ever since Meltdown and Spectre were disclosed, quite a few customers have been asking us for guidance on the performance impact of the mitigating patches for these hardware vulnerabilities: Do these patches impact performance? If so, by how much? The first question is answered easily: all these mitigations impact performance – hardly noticeable for some, […]

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Olaf Kirch
By: Olaf Kirch
August 08, 2012

Our Planned Approach to Secure Boot

In this follow-on blog to UEFI Secure Boot, I will describe our plans towards UEFI Secure Boot. Note that when we say “SUSE”, we really mean two very distinct distributions –  SUSE Linux Enterprise on one hand, and openSUSE on the other hand. The latter, being a  community project, is rather independent in their decisions […]

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Olaf Kirch
By: Olaf Kirch
August 07, 2012

UEFI Secure Boot

In case you don’t know what this blog is talking about: UEFI is the “Unified Extensible Firmware Interface”, and “Secure Boot” is one of its more recent features that is generating a bit of a stir in the Open Source world. At SUSE, we have been looking at UEFI Secure Boot long and hard. On […]

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