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From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Configuring for secure boot
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:52:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2df2f2dc-06ed-c85e-b37e-313e1ef51538@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200120195351.skm7ujz7yjr6mu32@pengutronix.de>

Hello,

On 1/20/20 8:53 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Disabling the shell entirely with CONFIG_SHELL_NONE is the best you can
> do. This also forces you to program your boot process in C which helps
> you to get a well defined boot without diving into potentially unsafe
> shell commands.
> 
> To state the obvious, you have to enable HAB support, sign your barebox
> images and burn the necessary fuses to forbid loading unsigned images.

I think it would be great to have a CONFIG_LOCKDOWN option that has inverse
dependencies on the stuff that should not be enabled and normal dependencies
on the stuff that should be. Such a CONFIG_LOCKDOWN barebox can then be used in
secure boot scenarios or for fuzzing efforts.

Thoughts?

> 
> Sascha
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-21 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-20 16:38 Christian Eggers
2020-01-20 19:53 ` Sascha Hauer
2020-01-21 10:52   ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2020-01-21 11:11     ` Sascha Hauer
2020-01-23 10:29   ` Configuring for secure boot / Using bootchooser Christian Eggers
2020-01-27 10:07     ` Sascha Hauer
2020-01-27 10:18       ` [RFC PATCH] bootm: Register as bootentry provider Christian Eggers
2020-01-27 12:49         ` Sascha Hauer
2020-01-27 19:26           ` Christian Eggers

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