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[–] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

Yeah Tumbleweed supports a lot of things. Whenever people have complained about Linux not doing something, I'm like "Uh, OpenSUSE does"

Since I'm updating the Kernel and nVidia driver modules, the system is making its own keypair, so I guess its not a check against a known supplied key but a machine specific key pair. Enrolling the key stores it to check against the kernel on boot.

I suppose it protects against Random malware installs changing files, or if somebody swaps a drive on you.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago*

    Right? OpenSUSE stopped my distrohopping way before I thought I would. I love it.

    Ahhh thank you, that makes a lot more sense! I don't feel too at-risk on my desktop, but if I ever find myself having to take a laptop to like, DEF-CON, then sounds like it'd be pretty essential, along with full-disk-encryption, AppArmor/SElinux, and all those other "wildly inconvenient but more secure" protocols set up.πŸ˜‚ (Lmao that would be terrifying.)

    I might try to re-enable it just for the experience. After all, never know when some insane automated malware will hit the 'net that somehow exploits boot like that, and freaks out everyone who said "Nahh that's not possible."

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