Secure boot is in case the OS gets tainted. It only allows a signed OS to boot.
For example when new nvidia drivers are autocompiled into my Tumbleweed kernel during an update, on reboot the srcureboot asks if I want to view the new key or allow it. I then have to enter a password to add the key…otherwise it won’t boot with that kernel.
Woo, Tumbleweed! Their support of it is a pretty strong plus. I would get that screen sometimes too but it confused me a lot and I ended up just being like “Accept key I guess? Oh cool it boots.”
What are you supposed to compare the key to? Nvidia’s repo on a website using a different device, or before you update or what? Is it like comparing checksums in Dolphin?
I’m not particularly afraid of Evil Maids vs. my Tumbleweed desktop, as I’m much too poor for hired help (lol), so I just turned it off.
They make compelling points about using it for laptops though.
Yeah Tumbleweed supports a lot of things. Whenever people have complained about Linux not doing something, I’m like “Uh, OpenSUSE does”
Since I’m updating the Kernel and nVidia driver modules, the system is making its own keypair, so I guess its not a check against a known supplied key but a machine specific key pair. Enrolling the key stores it to check against the kernel on boot.
I suppose it protects against Random malware installs changing files, or if somebody swaps a drive on you.
Secure boot is in case the OS gets tainted. It only allows a signed OS to boot.
For example when new nvidia drivers are autocompiled into my Tumbleweed kernel during an update, on reboot the srcureboot asks if I want to view the new key or allow it. I then have to enter a password to add the key…otherwise it won’t boot with that kernel.
Woo, Tumbleweed! Their support of it is a pretty strong plus. I would get that screen sometimes too but it confused me a lot and I ended up just being like “Accept key I guess? Oh cool it boots.”
What are you supposed to compare the key to? Nvidia’s repo on a website using a different device, or before you update or what? Is it like comparing checksums in Dolphin?
I’m not particularly afraid of Evil Maids vs. my Tumbleweed desktop, as I’m much too poor for hired help (lol), so I just turned it off.
They make compelling points about using it for laptops though.
Yeah Tumbleweed supports a lot of things. Whenever people have complained about Linux not doing something, I’m like “Uh, OpenSUSE does”
Since I’m updating the Kernel and nVidia driver modules, the system is making its own keypair, so I guess its not a check against a known supplied key but a machine specific key pair. Enrolling the key stores it to check against the kernel on boot.
I suppose it protects against Random malware installs changing files, or if somebody swaps a drive on you.