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I don't think you are understanding my point.

The distro installer should, if it detects setup mode, automatically be asking the user if they wish to replace the all the existing keys and enroll distro supplied certs, keys and dbx entries. Except none of the distros have this infrastructure built, outside of their dependence on Microsoft.

And no, none of this is needed if all you want is to be able to self sign a kernel/etc because its possible to install a MOK key to shim, but that isn't the point, the point is that the vast majority of linux users aren't setup to protect a cert/key chain from an attacker. Which is the entire reason for secure boot. If your attacker is sophisticated enough they will be stealing the signing keys from your machine/org and signing their own updates. Which is why MOK and self signing is a mistake for ~100% of Linux users.



ah yes. good point.

it doesn't help that the team (guy?) doing all the systemd unification for those features now work for Microsoft anyway.




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