Conference about linux and UKI (unified kernel image) focused on new things and the future.

[lofi]

hi, I'm still following this thread.

If anyone is in Europe near Berlin on the 13th and has 220€ to spare for a ticket and if it's not sold-out, this could be interesting.
https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-syste ... lk/ZEVAWH/
I don't know if there's a livecast, or a replay, I haven't heard about this.
Lenart Poettering is a lead systemd dev.
Conference about linux and UKI (unified kernel image) focused on new things and the future.
There's another one focused on Linux and TPM.

They changed the webpage, there was more details before, another title, and the speaker should have been : Jędrzejewski-Szmerk (working on systemd at Fedora)
Alas, this didn't work https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000 ... lk/3WMVZP/ (not archived)
They don't explain the cancellation, they just say "404, not found".
I think maybe it's political ? If my calendar should be trusted, the title was ~ "Evil Maid". And the guy wanted to explain how easy it is in 2023 to crack a Secure Boot linux. The conference theme was this : How can we improve the security? What path? What perspectives?

Anyway, there are still 2 conferences, and the Polish speaker working at systemd was replaced by a much more famous colleague (name above).
https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-syste ... lk/ZEVAWH/

I just wanted to drop the link, but I'm wasting your time less if I sum up what it's about. Of course this thread is not for researchers, but when I found this, I thought it was cool.
Greg Kroah-Hartman also has a page about UKI on his site. https://0pointer.net/blog/brave-new-tru ... world.html but it's a bit old. But this is a very nice intro for the layman, with even a glossary at the end (shim, PE, HSM...).

It's cool that linux22 is dumbing all this down for us.
But I'm moving to a distro using Calamares, so I have to *think*... I wonder why we have to do the chroot, why couldn't we install encrypted linux normally, then reboot, then do the UKI ? But this would be for another post.
Cheers.

[lofi]

Well apparently Poettering already made a similar talk, and this one is recorded and available.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedul ... eboot_tpm/
Where I found the link : https://uapi-group.org/docs/conferences ... m-devroom/