[OLPC-devel] Secure BIOS on the OLPC

Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Mon Aug 28 06:54:15 EDT 2006


Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote:
> 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). 

Neat.

> we do not have the same storage/memory footprint problems as OLPC
> does, as the open source public crypto codebase tends to be large.

I hastily hashed out a basic prototype of this, and it weighed in at
about 20K. The final version will likely be larger, but hopefully not by
much.

Cheers,

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