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Well if you walk backwards 10 paces and look at the big picture here, what MS did enables anti-cheat attestation via TPM, and that in turn can act as a feature that structurally - via the market - reduces the appeal of Linux.

Signing your own custom-built kernel (if you need to adjust flags etc., like I do) won't result in a certification chain that will pass the kind of attestation being sketched out by the OP article here.



Yes because you’re trying to communicate that trust to other players of the game you’re playing as opposed to yourself.

It’s why I hate the term “self-signed” vs “signed” when it comes to tls/https. I always try to explain to junior developers that there is no such a thing as “self-signed”. A “self-signed” certificate isn’t less secure than a “signed” certificate. You are always choosing who you want to trust when it comes to encryption. Out of convenience, you delegate that to the vendor of your OS or browser, but it’s always a choice. But in practice, it’s a very different equation.




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