This device shows up as a keyboard - should keyboards never be trusted ever? How would that work?
Going back to PS/2 could be an option? Guess that wouldn't be too different from allowing all devices only on a single USB port.
Any desktop computer would have to be redesigned to add a "allow new device" button since they have no other input.
Even on many laptops, the internal keyboard and mouse are USB devices, when you install a new OS, do you have to accept trust to those as well? Or how will you stop an external device from spoofing them with the same vendor/device ID?
This sounds like something that creates a chicken-and-egg problem of there not already being any such DTLS-speaking USB devices... but how about if vendors just create a little USB dongle that wraps whatever's plugged into it in "authentication" using DTLS? Ship the dongle with the laptop; tell people that if they want to install a new OS, they have to plug a USB keyboard in through the dongle.
Or only allow completely unauthenticated devices as a fallback when there is no other available authenticated device.
A computer not having any keyboard is a rare case. Most of the time you have what is built-in (and should be authenticated) or what came with the computer (and should be authenticated).
Allowing unauthenticated keyboards only on detection of no authenticated ones probably covers 99.9% of all use cases and increases security dramatically.
hell, simply through acquisition and acquiescence, the market already accepted locked-down platforms. at this point, we ought to have more benefits from this instead of just making these platforms hard to install Linux on.
Not sure if I just mis-configured my windows, but it is certainly lacking on that front. The Settings -> Devices -> USB having just a single checkbox for error popups is probably not a good sign.
Usability could be optimized depending on how uniquely identifiable keyboards are (to reduce when trust prompts are shown).