[U-Boot] Kernel RSA signature ?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jul 22 08:56:00 CEST 2009


Dear Cyrille Francois,

In message <61acdef60907212330r1a4d5829t976f88f72bcdeb56 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a solution to authenticate the kernel launched by
> u-boot via a RSA signature.
> Or another way perhaps...
> 
> I ask here for that, before beginning my development... if a solution
> already exist.

It exists. At least MD5 and SHA1 are supported. You need to wrap your
kernel into a "new style" aka FIT (Flattened Image Tree) image. See
doc/uImage.FIT/howto.txt and doc/uImage.FIT/* for details.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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