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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by inetknght on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @08:16PM (#46789731)
Can I build my own kernel and still use software that wants attestation?
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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by surajrmal on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @10:09AM (#46796322)
Do you have a way to tell the software to trust your kernel? If so, yes. Things like the web show how we can achieve distributed trust.
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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by account42 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @10:51AM (#46796920)
"Trust" has become such an orwellian word in tech.
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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by cferry on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:32PM (#46798632)
That's the thing. I can only provide a piece of software with the guarantee it can run on my OS. It can trust my kernel to let it run, but shouldn't expect anything more. The editor is free to run code it wants to guarantee the integrity of on its own infrastructure; but whatever reaches my machine _may_ at best run as the editor intends.
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