Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

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> On Di, 05.04.22 17:38, Chris Murphy (lists(a)colorremedies.com) wrote:
> 
> 
> Let me stress one thing though: Fedora *has* *no* working SecureBoot
> implementation. The initrd is not authenticated. It has no signatures,
> nothing.
> 
> By disabling SecureBoot you effectively lose exactly nothing in terms
> of security right now.
> 
> What good is a trusted boot loader or kernel if it then goes on
> loading an initrd that is not authenticated, super easy to modify (I
> mean, seriously, any idiot script kiddie can unpack a cpio, add some
> shell script and pack it up again, replacing the original one) – and
> it's the component that actually reads your FDE LUKS password.
> 
> I mean, let's not pretend unsigned drivers were a big issue for
> security right now. They are now, we have much much much wider gaping
> holes in our stack.
> 
> Lennart
> 
> --
> Lennart Poettering, Berlin


To achieve such feature(SecureBoot signer Unified Images) I've had to make some hack'ish scripts to run dracut a second time glueing all together and signing it, after generating the initrd inside /boot:

     - https://nwildner.com/posts/2021-04-10-secureboot-fedora/

Not proud of it, but it works(and I have cmdline + initrd + kernel + modules all signed as a bundle). 

This could be the spark of a package idea for Unified images

nwildner
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