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Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot


Secure Boot protects a system from an attacker that compromises the boot flow. For example, without Secure Boot it is easy to replace the code that reads your disk encryption password and store it somewhere where the attacker can pick it up later. So ideally you want Secure Boot to be enabled to limit the code that runs on your system to what is supposed to run there.

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