Now there’s a secure boot add-on for Raspberry Pi. Oh, yay?

  • 25 March 2015
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Wibu launches DRM kit aimed at securing Pi systems from bad software distros.

by Sean Gallagher - Mar 25, 2015
 
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Raspberry Pi, with dongle
 
At the Hannover Messe industrial technology fair in Germany today, the software licensing protection technology firm Wibu Systems introduced a "starter kit" for Raspberry Pi based on its CodeMeter technology that provides embedded systems developers a secure boot capability for Pi-based hardware. The kit, which includes a software developers' kit and the CmStick—a USB hardware "dongle" that can be used to ensure that only signed software with proper certificates can execute on the Raspberry Pi. This presumably prevents tampering with embedded code by an attacker.
 
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Well, sounds interesting :D
Thanks Jasper!
 
 
 
 
 

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