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Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

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Re: Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

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> We plan on streamlining this as much as possible, but so far this has not happened yet.

Probably integrating something like sbctl (https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl#sbctl---secure-boot-manage...) would do the trick, it's making the whole signing and key management dance easy.

Seems to already work together with limine on NixOS too: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=25.11&query=sbctl#s...

Re: Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

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Lanzaboote is great, I've been using it for almost a year now in a dual boot with Windows 11 for full secure boot on my desktop. It is quite stable (notably was set and forget) and the initial setup was relatively easy.

Re: Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

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> We plan on streamlining this as much as possible, but so far this has not happened yet. Probably integrating something like sbctl ( https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl#sbctl---secure-boot-manage... ) would do the trick, it's making the whole signing and key management dance easy. Seems to already work together with limine on NixOS too: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=25.11&query=sbctl#s...

sbctl is recommended these days: https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote/blob/master/docs...

Re: Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

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this is how Microsoft wins the war against general computing you must not join it, refuse to lockdown your computer

Secure boot and TPM are good technologies. You can roll your own keys and Microsoft won't have anything on it.

Do people still think you need to have your boot program signed by Microsoft in order to use it?

I also wonder if this sentiment is what stalled development in other more traditional projects like BSD derivatives. I'd love to have FreeBSD with secure boot and loading ZFS keys from the TPM.

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