| High Assurance Boot (HAB) for i.MX6 CPUs |
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| To enable the authenticated or encrypted boot mode of U-Boot, it is |
| required to set the proper configuration for the target board. This |
| is done by adding the following configuration in the defconfig file: |
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| CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT=y |
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| In addition, the U-Boot image to be programmed into the |
| boot media needs to be properly constructed, i.e. it must contain a |
| proper Command Sequence File (CSF). |
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| The Initial Vector Table contains a pointer to the CSF. Please see |
| doc/README.imximage for how to prepare u-boot.imx. |
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| The CSF itself is being generated by Freescale HAB tools. |
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| mkimage will output additional information about "HAB Blocks" |
| which can be used in the Freescale tooling to authenticate U-Boot |
| (entries in the CSF file). |
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| Image Type: Freescale IMX Boot Image |
| Image Ver: 2 (i.MX53/6 compatible) |
| Data Size: 327680 Bytes = 320.00 kB = 0.31 MB |
| Load Address: 177ff420 |
| Entry Point: 17800000 |
| HAB Blocks: 177ff400 00000000 0004dc00 |
| ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ |
| | | | |
| | | -------- (1) |
| | | |
| | ------------------- (2) |
| | |
| --------------------------- (3) |
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| (1) Size of area in file u-boot.imx to sign |
| This area should include the IVT, the Boot Data the DCD |
| and U-Boot itself. |
| (2) Start of area in u-boot.imx to sign |
| (3) Start of area in RAM to authenticate |
| |
| CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT currently enables only an additional command |
| 'hab_status' in U-Boot to retrieve the HAB status and events. This |
| can be useful while developing and testing HAB. |
| |
| Commands to generate a signed U-Boot using Freescale HAB tools: |
| cst --o U-Boot_CSF.bin < U-Boot.CSF |
| objcopy -I binary -O binary --pad-to 0x2000 --gap-fill=0x00 \ |
| U-Boot_CSF.bin U-Boot_CSF_pad.bin |
| cat u-boot.imx U-Boot_CSF_pad.bin > u-boot-signed.imx |
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| NOTE: U-Boot_CSF.bin needs to be padded to the value specified in |
| the imximage.cfg file. |
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| Setup U-Boot Image for Encrypted Boot |
| ------------------------------------- |
| An authenticated U-Boot image is used as starting point for |
| Encrypted Boot. The image is encrypted by Freescale's Code |
| Signing Tool (CST). The CST replaces only the image data of |
| u-boot.imx with the encrypted data. The Initial Vector Table, |
| DCD, and Boot data, remains in plaintext. |
| |
| The image data is encrypted with a Encryption Key (DEK). |
| Therefore, this key is needed to decrypt the data during the |
| booting process. The DEK is protected by wrapping it in a Blob, |
| which needs to be appended to the U-Boot image and specified in |
| the CSF file. |
| |
| The DEK blob is generated by an authenticated U-Boot image with |
| the dek_blob cmd enabled. The image used for DEK blob generation |
| needs to have the following configurations enabled in Kconfig: |
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| CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT=y |
| CONFIG_CMD_DEKBLOB=y |
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| Note: The encrypted boot feature is only supported by HABv4 or |
| greater. |
| |
| The dek_blob command then can be used to generate the DEK blob of |
| a DEK previously loaded in memory. The command is used as follows: |
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| dek_blob <DEK address> <Output Address> <Key Size in Bits> |
| example: dek_blob 0x10800000 0x10801000 192 |
| |
| The resulting DEK blob then is used to construct the encrypted |
| U-Boot image. Note that the blob needs to be transferred back |
| to the host.Then the following commands are used to construct |
| the final image. |
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| objcopy -I binary -O binary --pad-to 0x2000 --gap-fill=0x00 \ |
| U-Boot_CSF.bin U-Boot_CSF_pad.bin |
| cat u-boot.imx U-Boot_CSF_pad.bin > u-boot-signed.imx |
| objcopy -I binary -O binary --pad-to <blob_dst> --gap-fill=0x00 \ |
| u-boot-signed.imx u-boot-signed-pad.bin |
| cat u-boot-signed-pad.imx DEK_blob.bin > u-boot-encrypted.imx |
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| NOTE: u-boot-signed.bin needs to be padded to the value |
| equivalent to the address in which the DEK blob is specified |
| in the CSF. |