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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by userbinator on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @12:28AM (#34514750)
One pro-security, pro-freedom alternative is local attestation

What's the point? That's about as useful as running your own CA. The fact is, those pushing remote attestation want remote centralised control and they're going to care that you have your own attestation infrastructure as much as they'll care that you have your own CA, i.e. they're not going to be satisfied because they're trusting their own, and not yours.

the Pluton team also uses Linux daily, builds TWO Microsoft Linux distros, and upstreams Linux kernel features.

That's even scarier. If the only form of "supported" Linux becomes Microsoft Linux (with its own unique brand of spyware and other crap forced on you due to RA), don't say we never saw it coming: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish... or perhaps that last E should now be Enslave.

If it succeeds on OCP servers (where datacenter owners have power to negotiate with OEM/ODMs), perhaps more transparency and owner control/veto can be brought to client devices,

We already had "owner control" until they started trying to take that away from us. We don't need nor want attestation at all. No means NO!

Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by transpute on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @12:41AM (#34514834)
> they're not going to be satisfied because they're trusting their own, and not yours.

This cuts in both directions. Unlike certificates, attestation is not a zero-sum fight over a single monolithic measurement attribute that can only be A or B, it can support a goal of having A and B, e.g. as disaggregated VMs. If a cloud wants subset B, then the user/owner/enterprise local attestation can insist that the client must have subset A, otherwise it can reject subset-B-without-A.

Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by IYasha on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:52AM (#34515994)
> What's the point? That's about as useful as running your own CA.

Running your own CA IS useful.