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Re: GRUB and boot partition

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On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 26/12/2017 à 13:58, Reco a écrit :
> > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 11:59:18AM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there any inherent advantage to having /boot encrypted?
> > 
> > > The only things which might help against an evil maid attack [1] are:
> > > secure boot (tying your bootable to secure firmware) [3],
> > 
> > Restricted Boot (let's call the thing the way it should be called from
> > the start) could've solve this problem *if* it would be possible to
> > force it to verify the bootloader (or the kernel) signed with *user*
> > key.
> 
> I read that some UEFI implementations allow the user to manage secure boot
> keys. Carefully choose your hardware.

I'd use term 'elusive' to describe that kind of UEFI implementation.

Everything that can be bought here (I'm talking about x86 consumer-grade
hardware, of course) respects MSFT signing key only. If you're lucky,
your hardware has CSM (aka BIOS emulation mode).


> Oh, by the way I forgot twice to mention another situation when an encrypted
> /boot would provide an advantage : when the machine has a platform firwmare
> which supports LUKS encryption, such as CoreBoot, then the on-disk boot
> components could be entirely encrypted.

... and about the only trouble you have then is to locate that ThinkPad
x220 (the only relatively modern laptop model that supports CoreBoot
without a hassle I know of). Or a Chromebook if they still but SeaBIOS
inside those.

If you're preferring conventional desktop PC - you're out of luck with
CoreBoot.

Reco

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GRUB and boot partition microsoft gaofei <wangziheng@outlook.com> - 2017-12-26 03:40 +0100
  Re: GRUB and boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-26 10:50 +0100
    Re: GRUB and boot partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-26 11:40 +0100
      Re: GRUB and boot partition Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-12-26 11:50 +0100
        Re: GRUB and boot partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-26 12:00 +0100
          Re: GRUB and boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-26 12:30 +0100
            Re: GRUB and boot partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-26 12:40 +0100
          Re: GRUB and boot partition Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-12-26 14:00 +0100
            Re: GRUB and boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-26 14:30 +0100
              Re: GRUB and boot partition Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-12-26 14:50 +0100
              Re: GRUB and boot partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-26 15:00 +0100
      Re: GRUB and boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-26 12:20 +0100
        Re: GRUB and boot partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-26 12:30 +0100
          Re: GRUB and boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-26 12:40 +0100
            Re: GRUB and boot partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-26 12:50 +0100

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