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I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I too wish the developer would respond, but I don't think this is the catastrophe people are making it out to be. One comment seems to explain why these binaries are included:

Because ventoy supports shim, and by extension secure boot, these files needs to come from a signed Linux distro. In this case they are taken from Fedora releases, and OpenSUSE apparently, as they publish shim binaries and grub binaries signed by their certificate.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If the hashes match the files from the Fedora or OpenSUSE releases, then does this really matter?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

On the contrary: that just goes to show what a fucking catastrophe for software freedom "Secure[sic] Boot" is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

While this is true, it only requires the shim and grub to be copied for another distro.

From other comments there are a lot more blobs than just these two.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It sounds like most, if not all, come from upstream projects.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would be nice if the dev can respond and confirm that...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think they did say that in the older thread. But for proper security, you shouldn't have to trust them. You should have build tools that will re-fetch everything to create an identical build. That gives a clear chain of custody, which proves that morning has been tampered with.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

It sounds to me as a documentation issue, as the next comment says, simply including a wget script should solve this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that's only a few files out of the 153

[–] refalo 1 points 3 months ago

153 binaries? where?