Porting EDK II to an old Allwinner A13 tablet
Published at January 18, 2022 · Artur Kowalski · 7 min read
Most ARM SoC's run U-Boot or some custom bootloader. That was the case with Allwinner SoC's, until I started porting EDK II to my A13 tablet. In this post, I will tell you about the current UEFI support status on Allwinner SoC's, my future plans, and how to test UEFI on a compatible device...
Categories: firmware manufacturing
Fobnail Token - developing communication method that meets the CHARRA requirements
Published at December 15, 2021 · Tomasz Żyjewski · 4 min read
The Fobnail Token is an open-source hardware USB device that helps to determine the integrity of the system. The purpose of this blog post is to present the development progress of this project. During the last phase, we managed to implement the communication method that will be used between verifier and attester....
Increasing the security of iMX platforms - JTAG fusing
Published at December 14, 2021 · Michał Kotyla · 9 min read
JTAG helps a lot of engineers during product development. It also may be helpful for adversaries. We tell you why and how to increase JTAG security in your product...
Categories: manufacturing security
Enabling Secure Boot on RockChip SoCs
Published at December 3, 2021 · Artur Kowalski · 9 min read
RockChip Secure Boot is an essential security feature that helps tablet, PC, streaming media TV box, and IoT solution vendors secure their devices against malware infecting the firmware. In the following post, we will tell a story about enabling Secure Boot on the RK32xx family, but the lesson learned can be used on other models...
Dasharo for Dell OptiPlex 7010 / 9010
Published at November 26, 2021 · Michał Żygowski · 8 min read
Open source firmware may be hundreds of times better than the proprietary one. On the example of Dell OptiPlex 7010 / 9010 we will show you the advantages of Dasharo firmware on this machine....
Categories: firmware
First impression on Nezha RISC-V SBC
Published at November 19, 2021 · Cezary Sobczak · 9 min read
Nezha is a AIoT development board customized by AWOL based on Allwinner's D1 chip. It is the world's first mass-produced development board that supports 64bit RISC-V instruction set and Linux system....
Fobnail vs other boot security projects
Published at October 28, 2021 · Michał Żygowski · 11 min read
Have you ever thought about securing the boot process of your computer? No? This post will compare the available open source boot process hardening projects and explain the importance of signing and protection the software/operating system you launch. You will also get to know how the boot process may be secured even further and with the incoming Fobnail security token....
Published at October 8, 2021 · Michał Kopeć · 5 min read
An introduction to TPMs. Let's explore the differences between common implementations of TPMs and how they might matter to you....
Categories: security
Open Source Firmware on AMD Milan server processors
Published at September 9, 2021 · Michał Żygowski · 6 min read
There were times where AMD was actively supporting open source firmware ecosystem by providing silicon initialization code. With a few years break AMD is now trying to support open source firmware again with the mobile platform like Chromebooks. However, the recent achievements have made everybody think that open source firmware is also possible on servers....
Categories: firmware
Comparing popular CI/CD tools for on-premise configuration
Published at August 26, 2021 · Piotr Konkol · Artur Raglis · 4 min read
Comparing CI/CD tools: Drone, Buildbot, Tekton, Concourse. Self-hosted and open-source alternatives to Jenkins...
Categories: app-dev
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