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This page explains how coreboot can help with various security aspects of your system, compared to closed-source, legacy BIOS/EFI/firmware implementations.
This page explains how coreboot can help with various security aspects of your system, compared to closed-source, legacy BIOS/EFI/firmware implementations.


== Introduction ==
<div style="color:red">This page is work in progress!</div>


== RAM wiping ==
== RAM wiping ==
* http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/
* [[Coreinfo]] as demo payload for coreboot, [http://www.coreboot.org/images/3/3d/Coreinfo_ramdump.jpg showing your RAM contents after a cold boot].


== SMI issues ==
== SMI issues ==
* http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/sciences/fichiers/lti/cansecwest2006-duflot.pdf
* http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/42


== ATA issues ==
== ATA issues ==
* http://coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2005-May/011686.html
* http://www.heise.de/ct/english/05/08/172/


== BIOS password feature ==
== BIOS password feature ==
* [[Bayou]] / [[coreinfo]] based "BIOS password" feature, using SHA-1 hashes stored in NVRAM or the (flash) ROM chip.


== Firewire issues ==
== Firewire issues ==
* http://md.hudora.de/presentations/firewire/
* http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-firewire-dma-part-1-overview-and-mitigation
== TPM issues ==
* http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/49

Revision as of 20:58, 19 October 2008

This page explains how coreboot can help with various security aspects of your system, compared to closed-source, legacy BIOS/EFI/firmware implementations.

This page is work in progress!

RAM wiping

SMI issues

ATA issues

BIOS password feature

  • Bayou / coreinfo based "BIOS password" feature, using SHA-1 hashes stored in NVRAM or the (flash) ROM chip.

Firewire issues

TPM issues