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Will kernel-level anti-cheat ever work on linux?
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And then your keys will be rejected by the anticheat. Just because you can sign your kernel and load it does not mean a kernel module can't verify who signed it.
Yes, but with a modified Kernel you can fake what the anticheat reads when it checks the key, so you just feed it the key it wants to see instead of your own. The anticheat module would need run on a higher level then the Kernel itself to prevent that, for example alongside the CPU (like the Intel Management Engine).
I am not an expert on secure boot so I can't tell whether that's possible or not. But if it is, what stops people from doing that with Windows now?
You can't really change the code of the windows Kernel and boot your own, that's one of the things stopping people now