Fortnite is coming to Linux

[u/TheNavyCrow]

[u/New_Alps_5655]

Would a self signed Gentoo kernel with keys enrolled in TPM also work? Not that I'm ever going to play fortnite, just curious.

[u/Keelock → u/New_Alps_5655]

No, the cryptographic chain of trust starts with a root key they trust, and a self signed cert doesn't prove the kernel isn't enabling cheats, it just tells your motherboard TPM you trust it, which lets it boot.

[u/merb → u/[deleted]]

Kexec needs to be off. Also when you are kexec into a signed kernel you would still not gained anything

[u/LFP-Throwaway-3982 → u/[deleted]]

Requires kexec to be disabled, nice try.

[u/carsncode → u/New_Alps_5655]

When they say "signed by a trusted distro" they mean trusted by them. They don't care if it's trusted by you.

[u/Indolent_Bard → u/carsncode]

Well yeah, why the fuck would they trust you? "Never trust the client" after all. If trusted by you was the baseline it'd be way to easy to cheat, is that fair? Are you entitled to be able to cheat more easily?

[u/temporary_legging → u/New_Alps_5655]

Judging by the 'signed by a trusted distro' bullet point, probably not. They will almost certainly check against a hardcoded whitelist of vendor signing keys rather than trusting locally enrolled MOKs.

[u/GarbledEntrails → u/New_Alps_5655]

nope definitely not

[u/shadedmagus → u/New_Alps_5655]

That's a good question. Since my post was originally communicating details given by the screenshot, I'm just leaving it here as I'm not sure. Feel free to downvote.

[u/Ok_Instruction_3789 → u/New_Alps_5655]

So you want to build your own kernel with your own cheats built in and signed by you so it is legit so you can cheat in fornite is what your asking?