[U-Boot-Users] Support for verifying the certificate signature son the downloaded files?

[Shekhar Kshirsagar]

Hi Detlev,
 
> You mean checking downloaded image files signed by certificates?  
Yes.
 
> Um,
> I am not sure what you want to do this for in a _bootloader_  - sure
> U-Boot gets big but its still no operating system :)  Honestly, I
> don't understand the use for it, may be you can shed some more light
> on this.
 
It seems that as per the FIPS requirement any software that is installed on the 
device should have a signature and the signature should be verified by the 
device. Since Boot Loader is used occasionally to download the system files, 
I was investigating about the certificate support.
 
Shekhar
 
 

 
 

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