This project takes Chrome’s Verified Boot (Vboot) process and examines its various security properties using formal logic. This verification is done with a focus on the firmware/hardware boundary. The Vboot process depends on the correct functionality of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and a SHA accelerator. Because these hardware accelerators are interacted with through Memory Mapped I/O (MMIO), it is difficult for normal formal methods to capture the interface between the MMIO registers and the workings of the Hardware modules. To explore this boundary I am using a Software TPM Library and passing it through to the QEMU Hardware Emulator. This allows me to use the normal MMIO registers of a TPM with the original Vboot Library.[…]
Hastily-written news/info on the firmware security/development communities, sorry for the typos.
Firmware Security 