[OLPC-devel] Secure BIOS on the OLPC

[Richard Smith]

> >       a)      How does the verification happen ? This is where the
> > vulnerability will be.
>
> Small binary within the LB payload that uses standard crypto signature
> verification. This part can be assumed fully secure, as long as we ship
> the machines with a known-good BIOS, which we obviously will.

I was under the impression that the public key based crypto code is
pretty large. Due to the tables used.  Will the small binary really be
small?

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Richard A. Smith