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Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

55 pointsby evilmonkey19last Saturday at 6:55 PM6 commentsview on HN

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embedding-shapeyesterday at 11:07 PM

> We plan on streamlining this as much as possible, but so far this has not happened yet.

Probably integrating something like sbctl (https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl#sbctl---secure-boot-manage...) would do the trick, it's making the whole signing and key management dance easy.

Seems to already work together with limine on NixOS too: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=25.11&query=sbctl#s...

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c0balttoday at 12:04 AM

Lanzaboote is great, I've been using it for almost a year now in a dual boot with Windows 11 for full secure boot on my desktop. It is quite stable (notably was set and forget) and the initial setup was relatively easy.

pyrophaneyesterday at 11:32 PM

Huh, as a Lanaboote user I’m surprised to see this on the front page. I use this in combination with sbctl for key generation. I’m mostly using it because I wanted to set up full disk encryption with TPM2 auth.

krautsauertoday at 12:51 AM

This needs a (2022).

evilmonkey19last Saturday at 6:55 PM

Browsing the internet about secure boot and NixOS, I found the article of one of the creators