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Windows: prevent unsupported EFI Secure Boot fallback

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Detect whether the active firmware Secure Boot db trusts the Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011 before selecting the 2011-signed EFI loader set.

Abort with a clear diagnostic when Secure Boot is enabled but neither the 2011 CA nor the required 2023 CA pair is trusted, and document the CA requirements.

Preserve positive CA detection when malformed db data appears only after a supported Microsoft CA set has already been found, while recording the parse error in diagnostics.

Refs #1778.
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Mounir IDRASSI
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<p>Note: By default, Windows 7 and later boot from a special small partition. The partition contains files that are required to boot the system. Windows allows only applications that have administrator privileges to write to the partition (when the system is
running). In EFI boot mode, which is the default on modern PCs, VeraCrypt can not encrypt this partition since it must remain unencrypted so that the BIOS can load the EFI bootloader from it. This in turn implies that in EFI boot mode, VeraCrypt offers only to encrypt the system partition where Windows is installed (the user can later manually encrypt other data partitions using VeraCrypt).
In MBR legacy boot mode, VeraCrypt encrypts the partition only if you choose to encrypt the whole system drive (as opposed to choosing to encrypt only the partition where Windows is installed).</p>
<p>In EFI boot mode with Secure Boot enabled, VeraCrypt selects the installed Microsoft UEFI CA-signed bootloader set during install, repair, upgrade, or Windows PostOOBE repair. If you manually change firmware Secure Boot db entries, run VeraCrypt repair or reinstall to refresh the installed bootloader set.</p>
<p>In EFI boot mode with Secure Boot enabled, VeraCrypt selects a Microsoft UEFI CA-signed bootloader set trusted by the active firmware Secure Boot db during install, repair, upgrade, or Windows PostOOBE repair. The 2023 VeraCrypt loader set requires both Microsoft UEFI CA 2023 and Microsoft Option ROM UEFI CA 2023, while the 2011 loader set requires Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011. If the active db trusts neither supported set, VeraCrypt aborts instead of installing a loader that firmware will reject. If you manually change firmware Secure Boot db entries, run VeraCrypt repair or reinstall to refresh the installed bootloader set.</p>
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