Published at December 9, 2024 · Marta Witkowska · 8 min read
The sixth Qubes OS Summit, hosted in Berlin from September 20–22, 2024, was a dynamic convergence of experts and enthusiasts in the field of secure, open-source computing. Organized by 3mdeb and the Invisible Things Lab, this hybrid event featured live-streamed sessions for remote participants, facilitating global engagement....
Categories: miscellaneous os-dev
TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid - Phase 4
Published at May 17, 2024 · Krystian Hebel · 7 min read
This blog post marks the completion of the next phase of TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid project for Qubes OS. This time the project focused on AMD platforms, which is something that wasn't possible with the original solution based on tboot....
Categories: bootloader firmware hypervisor os-dev security
TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid - Phase 3
Published at January 12, 2024 · Krystian Hebel · 8 min read
This blog post marks completion of next phase of TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid project for Qubes OS. Even though user experience didn't change too much, the implementation went through a major overhaul....
Categories: bootloader firmware hypervisor os-dev security
Hardware setup for testing Qubes OS via openQA
Published at December 22, 2023 · Sergii Dmytruk · 24 min read
How Qubes OS installation and usage can be automatically tested on hardware with open-source software and firmware....
Categories: miscellaneous os-dev
TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid - Phase 2
Published at October 20, 2023 · Michał Żygowski · 10 min read
TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid project for Qubes OS is progressing. With the addition of TPM 2.0 support, Anti Evil Maid gains much higher adoption and possibilities than ever before....
Categories: bootloader firmware hypervisor os-dev security
TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid for Qubes OS
Published at January 31, 2023 · Michał Żygowski · 14 min read
Qubes OS Anti Evil Maid (AEM) software heavily depends on the availability of the DRTM technologies to prevent the Evil Maid attacks. However, the project has not evolved much since the beginning of 2018 and froze on the support of TPM 1.2 with Intel TXT in legacy boot mode (BIOS). In the post we show how existing solution can be replaced with TrenchBoot and how one can install it on the Qubes OS. Also the post will also briefly explain how TrenchBoot opens the door for future TPM 2.0 and UEFI support for AEM....
Categories: bootloader firmware hypervisor os-dev security
Qubes OS summit 2022 - Summary
Published at October 5, 2022 · Norbert Kamiński · 10 min read
Three weeks ago 3mdeb with Qubes OS team had organized next edition of the Qubes OS summit. This year summit was a face-to-face event hosted in Berlin, which took place from the 9th to the 11th of September....
Categories: miscellaneous os-dev
Reasonably secure way to update your system firmware
Published at September 18, 2020 · Norbert Kamiński · 3 min read
As you may know from the previous blog post, the qubes-fwupd is the wrapper that allows you to update the firmware of your devices in the Qubes OS. This time I will briefly describe the new features, whereby you will securely update your system firmware....
Project status of the fwupd/LVFS support for Qubes OS
Published at July 14, 2020 · Norbert Kamiński · 5 min read
During the QubesOS minisummit, I have presented the initial status of the fwupd/LVFS support for the Qubes OS. Now it is time to share some more information about the progress....
Qubes OS & 3mdeb 'minisummit' 2020 summation
Published at June 17, 2020 · Kamila Banecka · 8 min read
The second Qubes OS & 3mdeb minisummit is ahead of us. We had gone through four evenings of topics devoted to Qubes OS, so it is time for broad summation of the event....
Categories: firmware miscellaneous security
Qubes OS and 3mdeb 'minisummit' 2020
Published at May 15, 2020 · Kamila Banecka · 5 min read
Once again, we will meet on QubesOs & 3mdeb minisummit 2020 discussing #QubesOS, #firmware, #coreboot, #security and #TPM related topics. All the event details are presented in the following blog post....
Categories: firmware miscellaneous security
Qubes OS and 3mdeb 'minisummit' 2019
Published at August 7, 2019 · Piotr Król · 8 min read
In May we had pleasure to meet Marek Marczykowski-Górecki #QubesOS Project Lead in 3mdeb office in Gdańsk. We discussed various #QubesOS, #Xen, #firmware, #coreboot, #security and #TPM related topics. Results of that "minisummit" was presented in following blog post....
ssh reverse tunnel for PXE, NFS and DHCP setup on Qubes OS
Published at December 5, 2017 · Piotr Król · 6 min read
At some point I stuck in the forest with WiFi connection and no physical access to router to create nice networking for my coreboot development needs. Recently I switched my laptop to Qubes OS what give interesting flexibility, but also additional problems. My key requirement is to boot system over PXE, so I can easily do kernel development and play with Xen. Because only available connection for my apu2 platform was directly to my laptop I had to provide configured DHCP server and PXE server on it....
Categories: os-dev
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