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Internet of Things for Architects
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Internet of Things for Architects

by Perry Lea
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
13h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Root of Trust

The first layer of hardware security is the establishment of a Root of Trust. The Root of Trust (RoT) is a hardware-validated boot process that ensures the first executable opcode starts from an immutable source. This is the anchor of the boot process that subsequently plays a role in bootstrapping the rest of the system from BIOS to the operating system to the application. A RoT is a baseline defense against a rootkit. 

Each phase validates the next phase in the boot process and builds a Chain of Trust. An RoT can have different starting methods such as:

  • Boot from ROM or a non-writable memory to store the image and root key
  • One-time programmable memory using fuse bits for root key storage
  • Boot from a protected memory region ...
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ISBN: 9781788470599