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....
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
OSF vPub (vBeer) - what a fun event!
Published at July 1, 2021 · Mike Banon · 2 min read
Our 2nd OSF vPub gathering was really fun and interesting - together with Richard Stallman as our honored guest!...
Categories:
firmware
miscellaneous
fwupd on FreeBSD - Status Update
Published at June 14, 2021 · Michał Kopeć · 5 min read
As the fwupd port for FreeBSD nears completion, let's take a look at the biggest challenges we faced and how we managed to overcome them....
Categories:
firmware
Open Compute Open System Firmware (OCP OSF) and its' importance
Published at June 10, 2021 · Piotr Król · 6 min read
Let's figure out what is OCP Open System Firmware, see how it relates to the Open Source Firmware (OSF) - and why it is important for your company to have one running on your product....
Categories:
firmware
miscellaneous
Dell OptiPlex and coreboot - a story about porting cursed hardware (part 2)
Published at June 1, 2021 · Michał Żygowski · 10 min read
This post is a second part of the series which tells a story about porting Dell OptiPlex 9010 workstation to open-source firmware - coreboot. What was simple is long past us in the first part of the series. This time we are taking a deeper dive into the technical aspects of Environmental Controller reverse engineering and locating the problem with machine not booting after AC loss....
Categories:
firmware
First impressions on the beta BeagleV - affordable RISC-V SBC
Published at May 6, 2021 · Maciej Pijanowski · 11 min read
BeagleV is the first affordable RISC-V SBC designed to run Linux. It is fully open-source with open-source software, open hardware design and RISC-V open architecture. This blog post presents the basic functionality of the first batch of the available beta samples released to the community....
Right to Repair - and why is it important?
Published at April 30, 2021 · Mike Banon · 4 min read
Let's observe the struggles of today's repairman, why a right to repair is important and how 3mdeb can help....
Categories:
firmware
hardware
miscellaneous
Yocto Project and its components as the Reference OS for Dasharo
Published at April 22, 2021 · Maciej Pijanowski · 4 min read
Let's dive into the most frequently asked questions regarding Dasharo products based on Yocto Project - this blog post will answer what is Yocto and what are the reasons for choosing such a solution...
Thoughts on OSFC 2020 – day 2 and 3
Published at April 14, 2021 · Kamila Banecka · 8 min read
Lets share some thoughts that evolved during the OSFC 2020 talks and send kudos to many people who made this conference happen....
Categories:
firmware
The backdoor to your firmware 2
Published at March 25, 2021 · Anastazja Lapanova · 6 min read
Firmware vulnerabilities in the light of recent attacks as a backdoor of the firmware - part 2...
Creating ports for BSD distributions
Published at March 15, 2021 · Norbert Kamiński · Piotr Konkol · 8 min read
In this blog post, we will present how to build packages for FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Also, we will show you how to create CI for FreeBSD distribution with the use of GitHub action....
Categories:
firmware
Published at March 12, 2021 · Anastazja Lapanova · 5 min read
Firmware vulnerabilities in the light of recent attacks as a backdoor of the firmware...
OSF vPub (vBeer) - what a fun event!
Published at February 23, 2021 · Mike Banon · 2 min read
We've just had our first OSF vPub gathering, with lots of fun & really interesting talk about the open-source firmware/hardware with 50 masters from all over the world!...
Categories:
firmware
miscellaneous
Published at February 18, 2021 · Piotr Konkol · Kamila Banecka · 5 min read
Pros and cons of automated testing and the process of performing transparent validation....
Porting fwupd to the BSD distributions - How to compile fwupd on FreeBSD
Published at February 16, 2021 · Norbert Kamiński · 14 min read
The security of the whole system is not determined only by the software it runs, but also the firmware. We want to provide easy firmware update method to BSD distributions....
Categories:
firmware
FOSDEM 2021 – Open Source Firmware BMC and Bootloader devroom
Published at February 2, 2021 · Kamila Banecka · 4 min read
Thoughts around FOSDEM 2021 and 2020...
What is IOMMU and how it can be used?
Published at January 13, 2021 · Marek Kasiewicz · 6 min read
Welcome to a new blogpost series dedicated to IOMMU. In this article, you can read what IOMMU is and find out if its use may be beneficial for you....
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