Secure Boot Strategies for ARM Cortex A and M Speaker: Josh Datko

After learning the consequences of not turning on secure boot at HardwareSecure.training, this talk will tell you how to implement a secure boot design. Focusing on the ARM ecosystem, specifically cortex A and M microprocessors and microcontrollers, we’ll cover the general secure boot design pattern. Then we will focus on two open-source case studies using the Xilinx Zynq 7000 running embedded Linux and the STMicro STM32F205 with a bare metal application that supports a device firmware update. Lastly, we’ll talk about the impact of adding secure boot to a design in the following lifecycle stages: hardware and firmware development, hardware validation and test, manufacturing assembly testing, supply chain security, and end-user use cases. Why:

Secure boot isn’t magic either, sometimes it doesn’t work so what’s the backup plan.

Josh is also attending

4-Day Hardware Hacking, Reversing and Instrumentation

Apr 23-Apr 26, 2018

About the speaker

Speaker: Josh Datko
Website: Cryptotronix
Twitter: @cryptotx

Josh Datko is the owner of Cryptotronix, an embedded security consultancy. As a submarine officer, he was sent to Afghanistan to ensure that the Tailiban did not develop a submarine force -- mission accomplished! He wrote a book on BeagleBones and crypto hardware which not many people have read and presented a better way to make a hardware implant at DEF CON which hopefully helped the NSA improve their spying.

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