Embedded / Coreboot

• Coreboot cannot (currently) ship binaries.
• SquashFS needs work.
• Proprietary Firmware is involved. So we cannot ship binaries.
• Cannot read a binary once it is burned in. Or if I can, how can I enssure that what I “read” is really what is installed?
• We want to have assurance of trust.
• Checking that the firmware in flash, is what I wrote into flash?
• If I buy from a vendor how do I know the vendor hasn’t put “bad” firmware in it?
• Can we trust the storage?
• I can check the integrity of a hard disk by mounting it read-only on a trusted machine. But how can I check a flash EEprom on a trusted machine?
• Currently coreboot does not publish any hashes. Should they publish hashes for standard configurations?
• We should encourage third party vendors to publish hashes of firmware shipped with hardware.
• Coreboot should be encouraged to publish hashes for a select number of standard configurations/boards.