U-Boot Archive on lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Shekhar Kshirsagar <KshirsaS@sj.symbol.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Support for verifying the certificate signature son the downloaded files?
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:34:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s187a8fe.083@RUNABOUT> (raw)

Hi Detlev,
 
> You mean checking downloaded image files signed by certificates?  
Yes.
 
> Um,
> I am not sure what you want to do this for in a _bootloader_  - sure
> U-Boot gets big but its still no operating system :)  Honestly, I
> don't understand the use for it, may be you can shed some more light
> on this.
 
It seems that as per the FIPS requirement any software that is installed on the 
device should have a signature and the signature should be verified by the 
device. Since Boot Loader is used occasionally to download the system files, 
I was investigating about the certificate support.
 
Shekhar
 
 

 
 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20041102/8f2c66f6/attachment.htm 

             reply	other threads:[~2004-11-02 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-02 23:34 Shekhar Kshirsagar [this message]
2004-11-03  0:25 ` [U-Boot-Users] Support for verifying the certificate signature son the downloaded files? Wolfgang Denk

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=s187a8fe.083@RUNABOUT \
    --to=kshirsas@sj.symbol.com \
    --cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox