Fobnail Token - platform provisioning
Published at March 21, 2022 · Krystian Hebel · 7 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. This phase was focused on platform provisioning....
A new source of trust for your platform - Dasharo with Intel TXT support
Published at March 17, 2022 · Michał Żygowski · 9 min read
Do you trust the firmware on your system? No? Then this post is a must-read for you. Get to know what Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) is and how it may help you securely measure and attest your operating system and software running on your machine. You will also hear about open-source implementation of Intel TXT for Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge platforms including Dell OptiPlex 7010 / 9010....
Current status of coreboot and Heads ports for Talos II
Published at February 16, 2022 · Krystian Hebel · 8 min read
This post summarizes our current progress on making first coreboot port for POWER platform, including Heads as a payload. It will also show how You can test it without having to flash firmware to PNOR....
Categories: firmware
KGPE-D16 open-source firmware status
Published at February 3, 2022 · Michał Żygowski · 6 min read
This post covers the struggles and efforts behind the revival of KGPE-D16. Something that community was waiting for a long time. With Dasharo firmware the platform obtained a new life and sees a new daylight with more security features and improvements....
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....
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