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Measured Boot

Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered! See this for potential alternatives.

• https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/02/16/evil-maid-heads-pureboot/
• https://osresearch.net/
  • https://github.com/linuxboot/heads
• https://docs.dasharo.com/unified-test-documentation/dasharo-security/203-measured-boot/
• https://trenchboot.org/
  • https://trenchboot.org/FAQ/
• https://www.system-transparency.org/
  • https://docs.system-transparency.org/st-1.1.0/

On measured boot, which seems better than SecureBoot:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UhwK3g99_0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RSH3JXqShE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc75hobVjbo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL0AMLiwPj8

Discussions

• Flashkeeper: The Solution to SPI Flash Firmware Tampering? [Due to Qubes forums policy, that forum thread in the "All around Qubes" category can only be viewed by users that are logged in.]
• https://github.com/linuxboot/flashkeeper
  • https://nlnet.nl/project/Flashkeeper/
  • https://github.com/linuxboot/heads/pull/1568#issuecomment-2284151446
• https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/discussion-on-purism/2627/135
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx9MS1_1e2c
• https://forums.whonix.org/t/fs-verity-in-linux-5-4/8911

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