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   > the installer detects this, your teaser OS install knows it needs   
   > to install Linux Shim support. Both Microsoft and Linux have worked   
   > to modify the boot materials. The keys are stored in NVRAM in   
   > the motherboard BIOS chip (a 4MB area of NOR flash). A lot of that   
   > flash area, is given to "boot path storage".   
      
   OK, so I was mistaken in thinking that this UEFI rig was entirely disk   
   based, that's a relief :-)   
      
      
   > Microsoft revoked their original certificate and has installed   
   > a second one. In a Linux only environment then, there might   
   > be some related operations the MOKUTIL is doing on a reboot.   
   > It may be trying to install the Microsoft material as the "base coat"   
   > for the shim. And some aspect of the signed shim that rests on top   
   > is the rest of it.   
      
   There seems to be a lot of strange footprint tracks lurking in the   
   shadows both by Intel and Microcancer and their whores, I put them all   
   in the same bag   
      
   uuid   
   systemd   
   keyrings   
   EFI   
   Secure-Boot   
      
      
      
      
   > I wasn't attempting to understand all of it, when I did mine. I just   
   > wanted to see if I could get something/anything to work. and based   
   > on the PCR "register number", I can't really tell how many   
   > resources in my fTPM are left. Only one machine has a real TPM here,   
   > the others have the firmware fakery in its place. And the fTPM has   
   > PCR registers like a real TPM has.   
   >   
   > What I was doing, is sort of a "fire drill". seeing if I could   
   > get out, in the event of a fire... It seemed to be working, but   
   > I could never be sure, exactly how many of the distros were moving   
   > in the same direction I was moving. There is never any overview   
   > indicating you could be doing a better job of it.   
      
   I have no idea how many distros are really free, as in unattached to   
   vermin, I'd like to see one started by the guru himself, call it *Linus'   
   Finger*   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)