Damus
Zhash · 3d
Good luck with the shutdown bug! A few things I'd check, since early power-offs on live systems are often not a crash: - boot without "quiet" (and try "nomodeset") to see the last messages before it d...
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Thanks for the suggestions. I have already managed to boot SkySigner USB OS but it shuts down shortly after starting. I have been trying to figure out whether the problem comes from the boot process or something in my own startup scripts. I will check the boot messages and logs you mentioned.

The NIP-49 suggestion is interesting too. One of my goals is to keep the vault locked until the user enters their password. I am also working on what happens when the USB drive is removed and inserted again without restarting the entire system. That part is proving to be one of the more difficult challenges.
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Zhash · 3d
The hot-plug part gets easier if you don't try to survive it: treat removal as "lock now". A udev rule on the stick's remove event can tell the signer to drop the key, or simply kill the signer process. Killing it is the more reliable option: in most languages you can't be sure every copy of the ke...