cryptboot

Encrypted boot partition manager with UEFI Secure Boot support (by xmikos)

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cryptboot reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of cryptboot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-18.
  • Setting up Secure Boot, but the wiki doesn't provide enough info I think
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 18 Jan 2022
    I just completely cheated by using cryptboot. Then it is as simple as cryptboot-efikeys create, then to enroll them into your eufi, cryptboot-efikeys enroll and finally to sign any efi executable (or any file), cryptboot-efikeys sign $FILE. There are other helper scripts, but I don't use them. Full documentation is on their GitHub: https://github.com/xmikos/cryptboot. Good luck!
  • Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021
  • Physical security tips & recommendations
    1 project | /r/thehatedone | 3 May 2021
    Prevent evil maid by bringing your devices everywhere. Or you can just switch to GNU/Linux and add https://github.com/xmikos/cryptboot
  • Unencrypted boot partition risks
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 4 Apr 2021
    I think it was this one: https://github.com/xmikos/cryptboot
  • Cool new things on linux world for fresh installation and a bit of my usage different things.
    7 projects | /r/archlinux | 8 Mar 2021
    Also, I am pretty sure that you can only have encrypted /boot if you use GRUB. The point of doing so is not really to make sure nobody reads it (there isn't anything interesting on /boot by default), but to make sure that nobody can tamper with it (ignoring the encryption vs authenticated encryption discussion). However, you still have to make sure nobody can tamper with GRUB itself. You might want to check out https://github.com/xmikos/cryptboot if this sounds interesting. Also, there are similar solutions that don't use encrypted /boot, for example booting from signed EFISTUBs, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot#Implementing_Secure_Boot. Also, I don't actually use this kind of setup personally (albeit I'd like to one day), and I am certainly not a security expert, so take this whole paragraph with a big grain of salt, and double check with somebody who actually knows what they are talking about.
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xmikos/cryptboot is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of cryptboot is Shell.


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