On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 01:12:25PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 9:27 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > That's thinking about the problem from the wrong point of view. SecureBoot > > doesn't prevent an attacker from booting an OS that's different from what > > you installed, even without shim they could swap to a different Windows > > install. What SecureBoot does is to provide a mechanism to assert that > > what has booted matches the original install, and securely tie that > > condition to the release of secrets for example to LUKS key. > > > I think you mistaken SecureBoot with a TPM measurement. > > SecureBoot is indeed only about executing or not executing a code > which is signed by a trusted key. Naturally if there are multiple > trusted keys or a whole tree of signed firmwares, loaders, and > operating systems, then from SecureBoot point of view, they are > equivalent.
Well actually I was really referring to the combination of the two. SecureBoot makes the use of TPM more practical / straightforward by avoiding the need to tie the policy to measurements that change on every software update, instead you can tie to a measurement associated with successful secure boot. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
