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Towards Protected Firmware Verification in Low-power Devices
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- Authors
- Yong-Hyuk Moon, Jeong-Nyeo Kim
- Issue Date
- 2017-09
- Citation
- International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE) 2017, pp.177-179
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- It is barely conceivable to ensure the security state of a device without a trusted computing base. However, a hardware security module is not provided in most low-power devices. This paper presents a new design approach, which can securely verify a current state of firmware at a booting time utilizing untrusted components. We discuss a Memory Protection Unit (MPU) enabled memory access control to ensure that memory regions of a bootloader are not accidentally compromised from unintended access. Further extensions of the suggested approach are also addressed for achieving the enhanced security confirmation.
- KSP Keywords
- Current state, Enhanced security, Hardware Security Module, Low-Power Devices, Memory Access, Memory protection, Security state, Trusted computing, access control, design approach