There’s a new Beagleboard breed – the BeagleV-Fire! It combines Microchip’s Polarfire SoC with the Altoids-tin form factor famous from Beagleboard.org. I am particularly excited about this collaboration for all the reasons I get into in the video. The board is slowing making its way to US distributors right now, which is good because Beagleboard… Read More
I gave a talk for the High Plains IEEE Chapter last week. The requested topic was an introduction to computer security. So I gave it go. The original abstract I came up with was a bit boring, so I asked chatgpt to re-write it in a kind of activist tone. There was no burning of… Read More
NIST announced in February the winner of the lightweight cipher competition. In this video I motivate WHY we even need lightweight ciphers in the first place using my favorite watch!
How to securely handle time on embedded systems? Do you trust your time or not? What should you do if the certificate expires? Where do you sync your time from? Read More
In this episode, I introduce the DICE (Device Identifier Composition Engine). I mentioned the motivation for the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to make this standard and why its specifically tailored for embedded devices like MCUs and smaller controllers. Read More
In this episode I talk about the ATECC608 that’s on the SAMA7G Eval Kit and why, even though the SAMA7 includes TrustZone, you would want an external IC. Read More
Embedded Linux devices are generally lacking in security, but especially file system security. While I’m seeing the ship start to turn with respect to secure boot, there is still a wide lack of file system prevention and monitoring security. Read More
The UK is proposing some interesting device cybersecurity legislation that will impact more people than they realize. Read More
Having audited a few custom protocols, as nearly every embedded project decides to implement them, nearly every one has had a security issue. In this video I discuss the top three issues I’ve seen. Read More
Using the latest issue of IEEE Security & Privacy as a front to discuss this topic, I talked about the different focus areas of information security. Read More
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