Secure Boot is being tested on Debian Sid [News]

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Secure Boot is being tested on Debian Sid [News]

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Currently Debian is testing secure boot on Sid and would be coming to Debian 10.

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... ecure-Boot

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Good news.

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I think it would require the Debian Installer, but maybe the MX installer could figure out how to use a signed Debian kernel. I don't know how the security model works though. How secure would it be if any user could also create their own modified kernel with the keys? I would think that the keys would have to be kept secret by Debian.

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Does it need to be a signed kernel? Would be nice if it was somehow independent architecturally.

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I never had a chance to try out secure boot in windows since my last OS I used was windows 7.

If I understand correctly secure boot prevents root kits and OS tampering, is the reverse also possible where secure boot prevents bios/uefi tampering?

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That is interesting. Wait and see ...
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mystic wrote: Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:49 am I never had a chance to try out secure boot in windows since my last OS I used was windows 7.

If I understand correctly secure boot prevents root kits and OS tampering, is the reverse also possible where secure boot prevents bios/uefi tampering?
Since hackers quickly found ways around Secure Boot, its main feature has been to make installing an alternative OS, such as Linux, much more difficult. Cynics have said that's its raison d'etre.

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Could we just have a secret handshake?????
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