For the attention of PC owners with Asus motherboards !


suatcini54

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I came across an Asus Website ( Windows Secure Boot Certificate Expiration and Update Guidelines | Official Support | ASUS Global ) that mentions about utilities to install motherboard MS CA 2023 certificates in several ways.

You will know those ways when you read the Asus web page.

I already installed the current certificates more than a year ago but wanted to give a run to one of the utilities that suited my motherboard (Asus H97-Pro Gamer from late 2014).

My motherboard is out of servicing cycle, meaning no BIOS updates are available for secure boot certificate enrollments. So I used the manual method just out of curiosity.

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I downloaded SecureBootUtility.zip file and extracted SecureBootUtility.exe. I ran it in a CMD console opened with admin privileges.

I did not take any screenshots but the utility told me that my Asus PK certificate was wrong or something to that effect and asked me if I wanted to replace it. I said Yes (Y).

Then after rebooting, Windows started normally.

I had a Secure Boot status report by garlin's check script before I made the change and I made another report after the change.

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From the two reports I see that I had a Canonical Ltd. Master Certificate Authority cert under UEFI KEK certs section before but not after. I do not know what Canonical Ltd. Master Certificate Authority certificate was for but Asus utility got rid of it.

I thought some Asus PC owners, who do not know the presence of the above-mentioned Asus web page might be interested.

Happy computing.
 

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From the two reports I see that I had a Canonical Ltd. Master Certificate Authority cert under UEFI KEK certs section before but not after. I do not know what Canonical Ltd. Master Certificate Authority certificate was for but Asus utility got rid of it.
Many Dell's also have a factory-default KEK cert for Canonical. Canonical is the parent company of Ubuntu Linux.
 

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Many Dell's also have a factory-default KEK cert for Canonical. Canonical is the parent company of Ubuntu Linux.
Thanks for the update. It is appreciated.

I also ran another utility from Asus (secureboot2023_helper.exe) and it read "All target certificates have already been installed. No update is necessary."

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    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Home Built
    CPU
    Intel i7-4790
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    Teams DDR3-1600 4x4 GB
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I don't use anything extra, I don't mess with certificates... no need for me. Only certs are from official sites that get official registrations. And i am the end user, so if i get notice, hardly ever a notice, I can choose whether to visit them or not.
 

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Thanks. Checked my 18 month old PC, all looks good.
 

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