From: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth@southpole.se>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] What methods of software authentication does U-Boot support?
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:07:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208779658.7326.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080420233220.DE0A4248A6@gemini.denx.de>
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 01:32 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <20080418163211.d5a1ee64.kim.phillips@freescale.com> you wrote:
> >
> > > U-Boot will run only software that has been
> > > authenticated to be from the system's producer.
>
> Seems it's time to start a discussion to switch to GPL v3...
>
>
> > > Any comments or suggestions?
> > >
> > this patch taps into openssl:
>
> Be careful. Linking against openssl is not possible because the
> openssl licence is not compatible with GPL; see for example
> http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
For a u-boot friendly version of RSA look at
http://xyssl.org/code/source/rsa/
I have not used it as the client put the secure(authenticated) image
thing on hold but it was the best I could find in the limited time I put
into it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-21 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-18 17:01 [U-Boot-Users] What methods of software authentication does U-Boot support? Ken.Fuchs at bench.com
2008-04-18 21:32 ` Kim Phillips
2008-04-20 23:32 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21 12:07 ` Kenneth Johansson [this message]
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