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Fix SBAT.md for today's consensus about numbers #672

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As per #634, the current consensus seems to be for generation numbers to only ever go up and not get reset. This has been clarified and an example related to this behavior has been described.

As per rhboot#634, the current consensus
seems to be for generation numbers to only ever go up and not get reset.
This has been clarified and an example related to this behavior has been
described.

Signed-off-by: Kamil Aronowski <[email protected]>
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In the perfect scenario, to provide the perfect security, the UEFI SBAT
revocation variable (named *SbatLevel*) would then be set, so that GRUB with a
global generation number of only 4 or higher would be able to be booted. (In
reality there's naturally going to be a certain grace period)
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I don't think you need to emphasise the "perfect security" etc. so much here. Maybe just:

After this, the UEFI SBAT revocation variable (named SbatLevel) would be updated to raise the minimum global generation number for GRUB to 4.

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How about "[...] to raise the mandatory minimal global generation number [...]", putting an emphasis on the "must" in "from this point in time it must be 4 or higher"?

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A few suggested changes, otherwise looks good!

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Looks good, I think!

@steve-mcintyre steve-mcintyre merged commit dc07432 into rhboot:main Aug 20, 2024
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