From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shekhar Kshirsagar Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:34:11 -0800 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Support for verifying the certificate signature son the downloaded files? Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:25:49 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Support for verifying the certificate signature son the downloaded files? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:34:11 PST." Message-ID: <20041103002554.E3E3AC1430@atlas.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de In message you wrote: > > 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. U-Boot is not intended or designed to support any FIPS-approved mode of operation. > --=_D6F6126E.AACED3D0 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Description: HTML > > > And STOP posting HTML to this list!!! Wolfgang Denk -- See us @ Embedded/Electronica Munich, Nov 09 - 12, Hall A.6 Booth 513 Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de The only solution is ... a balance of power. We arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power -- the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves both sides. -- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8