[OLPC-devel] Secure BIOS on the OLPC

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Hi Ivan,

Your approach is basically what we've used to do secure (or maybe a better word is "safe") updates of PlanetLab nodes (www.planet-lab.org).  It doesn't protect against soldering irons etc., but appears effective enough to keep systems secure. Of course, we do not have the same storage/memory footprint problems as OLPC does, as the open source public crypto codebase tends to be large.  Nonetheless, thought I'd speak up in support of your proposal.

Cheers,
Marc