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mortar
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WTF is a KDF? A startling revelation from a French prison
Bruteforce of such random password is just not plausible and talks about KDF "weakness" is just a distraction. I think most likely it was evil maid attack.
Here are projects which try to mitigate some of evil maid attack risks:
https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar
https://safeboot.dev/
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Installation with full-disk, two-factor encryption, secure boot, and TPM
Secure boot and TPM support (à la Mortar: https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar)
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Complying with the future: Secure Boot and TPM unclocking
There are tools that look to be able to automate it: https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar/blob/master/docs/proxmox-install.md
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Prevent backup of vTPM2.0 state?
I just went through the process of setting up new ubuntu VM's using full root disk LUKS encryption and auto-unlock via Proxmox's vTPM2.0 and UEFI ( via this extremely helpful resource https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar )
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tpm2 + luks + ubuntu 18 setup?
I have used this project with Debian+proxmox and it's been working great. https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar but I did read the arch wiki a bit which helped my understanding.
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What do you don't like about Linux? What is Windows doing better?
There's a project called "mortar" (as in, gluing all these bricks together) that was attempting to simplify this. Though it's lost steam, reading through it's simple bash scripts was a great place to start for me. This guide for Fedora also helped a lot.
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Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
There have been a number of attempts to solve this problem, but the most complete appear to be Mortar (a project I head) and safeboot.dev
I highly recommend taking a look at either of these projects if you want be able to improve both your convenience through auto unlocking, and security through broadened scope of audit.
https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar
https://safeboot.dev
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Best Evil Maid prototcol for Linux?
Check out mortar. It uses secure boot and TPM along with LUKS. The creator is super helpful and available on the telegram.
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Mount encrypted volume at boot?
A more advanced approach would be something like mortar to chain-load signed stuff.
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Will Proxmox be able to run Windows 11?
There seems to be a workable solution out there for 2.0: https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar/blob/master/docs/proxmox-install.md
mkinitcpio
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Secure boot -- Sign kernel with pacman hook
This file has been changed recently and the wiki still references the old line. You have to modify this line now:
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Why use a bootloader? Just boot directly into a unified kernel image
mkinitcpio is an arch thing: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio
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I share a pacman improvement idea
The Arch Linux devs don't have infinite time and energy, so yes less-important issues that affect less users get diprioritized. You're welcome to PR the fix yourself, here's the mkinitcpio repo: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio
- Fix for warnings when upgrading kernel?
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NVIDIA power management not working when modules are in initramfs
The general logic was changed in the new mkinitcpio release. https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/pull/54/files
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Problems when booting after every kernel update
That's an odd one since reinstalling the package fixes the issue. I wouldn't be so sure it's grub because it just loads the vmlinuz and initramfs that are suffixed with the pkgbase. That will not change based on the kernel version and pkgrel version. Someone brought up needing a hook. the mkinitcpio package already installs hooks and scripts necessary for maintaining a mkinitcpio prefix for each kernel for the initramfs image generation and installing vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz-${pkgbase} on upgrades. Everyone with the official mkinitcpio package is going to have the same /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/mkinitcpio-install shell script. Running grub-mkconfig is pointless for a kernel upgrade for the reason stated. All it does is export variables from /etc/default/grub and concatenates /etc/grub.d/* into a single config file. If there was a grub config issue it's unlikely you would ever be able to boot.
- mkinitcpio v31 released
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Has your Arch system ever broken?
mkinitcpio made zstd the default on 2021-02-17
- What bootloader do you use and why?
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Arch Linux - News: Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio
The number of thread is, but the compression level isn't. Because -3 is a sane default for the compression level in time of compression time and output file size, but this can differ for your machine. I find that on my machine best compression level is -15 or -16 for size and compression time. Since it will take a 1 second more to compress but it will yield a file 80% more compressed than the default. Here is the pill request where the defaults where changed mkinitcpio#47
What are some alternatives?
sbctl - :computer: :lock: :key: Secure Boot key manager
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
swtpm - Libtpms-based TPM emulator with socket, character device, and Linux CUSE interface.
clevis - Automated Encryption Framework
svntogit-packages - Automatic import of svn 'packages' repo (read-only mirror)
linux-secureboot-kit - Tool for complete hardening of Linux boot chain with UEFI Secure Boot
efifs - EFI FileSystem drivers
solo1 - Solo 1 firmware in C
bootmgr - A configuration framework for EFI boot entries
qubes-antievilmaid - Qubes component: antievilmaid
better-initramfs - Small and reliable initramfs solution supporting (remote) rescue shell, lvm, dmcrypt luks, software raid, tuxonice, uswsusp and more.