Ubuntu 2022v1 secure boot key rotation and friends

1 · Julian Andres Klode · Feb. 1, 2023, 3:43 p.m.
This is the story of the currently progressing changes to secure boot on Ubuntu and the history of how we got to where we are. taking a step back: how does secure boot on Ubuntu work? Booting on Ubuntu involves three components after the firmware: shim grub linux Each of these is a PE binary signed with a key. The shim is signed by Microsoft’s 3rd party key and embeds a self-signed Canonical CA certificate, and optionally a vendor dbx (a list of revoked certificates or binaries)....