Linux as a UEFI bootloader and kexecing windows

As strange as it first seems, chainloading Windows from Linux might be the more secure way to boot the system. From within a minimal PXE booted runtime, the Linux shell scripts can perform a TPM-rooted remote attestation with the normal tpm2 tools, receive the BitLocker keys from the attestation server using the safeboot scripts and safely pass them to Microsoft’s bootloader in a UEFI ramdisk via a form of kexec. This specialized Linux kernel and initrd also makes an ideal OS install and recovery environment since it can use the vendor-provided UEFI device drivers to talk to the hardware, allowing a generic kernel to work on most devices without customization.