[kwlug-disc] Pureboot

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

The Libre Lounge podcast did a recording with someone from Purism at
LibrePlanet, which talks about the security related stuff they are
working on.

> https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-15-at-libre-planet-with-sean-obrien.html

I have not had a chance to listen yet, so I do not know if they
explicitly mention Pureboot.

Andrew


On 2019-03-22 3:33 p.m., Chris Irwin wrote:
> People on this list might be interested in "Pureboot", a secured boot
> process from Purism, a vendor of Linux laptops:
> 
> My understanding from their post is their system is a variant of
> Coreboot+Heads which provides tamper detection (via TPM) and two-factor
> (physical token + pin) to decrypt your hard disk, which can then boot
> the linux distro of your choice.
> 
> Pureboot announcement:
> 
>    https://puri.sm/posts/pureboot-the-high-security-boot-process/
> 
> Pureboot Project page:
> 
>    https://docs.puri.sm/PureBoot.html
> 
> At the moment, this is a limited project (beta, requires their laptops +
> security key), but is interesting anyway.
> 
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