Grass comments on Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

wasn't there some dumb shit like every linux distro using fedora keys which were from microsoft?

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[–] huggingstars@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

Microsoft signs Red Hat certs then Red Hat signs everyone's certs, so the only thing Microsoft can do is to revoke Linux as a whole.

It's the solution that requires minimal user effort since most computers are designed for Windows.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

And MS probably won't do it willy-nilly because their stack is peobably using it to some degree and many more of those Fortune-X00 are very likely something RHEL. So fucking that over will crash their stock like it did with CrowdStrike but much much worse.

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[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

not only likely... i read somewhere that make more money with linux stuff on azure than with anything else they do can't find the source rn tho

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[–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 1 point 7 months ago

I think it is just chain of trust. Many used Microslop as the trust authority (may be due to convenience? I have no idea). Debian has a nice page on Secure boot and how it works.

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