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Thaxllyesterday at 5:04 PM1 replyview on HN

I guess this is similar to TPM / secure boot on a pc?


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bri3dyesterday at 7:31 PM

This is the same hardware as a PC, but TPM and UEFI “Secure Boot” happen way, way later in the boot process and aren’t present here; this is the hardware root of trust, in this case the AMD PSP boot firmware, which runs on an ARM system alongside the x86 cores. Intel’s version is called Boot Guard and runs on a combination of x86 sub-cores (TXE) and ME.

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