Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: F45 Change Proposal: Grub EFI For Confidential Computing (self-contained)

Przemek Klosowski via devel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Organization NIST
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/25/26 8:15 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Given that the UEFI's trust/security architecture during boot focuses
> on authenticating individual binaries (rather than authenticating file
> systems as a whole) it is essential that file systems accessed during
> boot loader runtime are as simple as possible. i.e. FAT is simply the
> best option, because comparatively simple.

It's funny how CSsushiMan  and Lennart, with their nearly entirely 
opposite backgrounds, essentially have the same intuition that early 
boot stages need to have a clean, green field of a simple kernel/initrd 
layout.  I actually agree; the combinatorial explosion of possibilities 
with all the filesystems, MD/DM layers, encryption, RAID, etc, etc, is 
just too hard to manage.

My reservation used to be the unencrypted boot artifacts allowed 
tampering and subversion of the boot process---but of course now the 
secure boot can use  TPM verification chain to protect them.

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