Re: [PLUG] Talk at Drexel on NERF -- A FOSS alternative to UEFI

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

Not sure. But he seems to be giving a very similar talk at the
Princeton ACM Thursday night, and they have been recording their
talks.

http://princetonacm.acm.org/meetings/mtg1804.pdf

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 05:38:32PM -0400, Keith C. Perry wrote:
> I'm not going to be able to make this either. Do you know if it is going to be recorded? 
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> From: "George Zipperlen" <george.zipperlen@mail.com> 
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> Subject: [PLUG] Talk at Drexel on NERF -- A FOSS alternative to UEFI 
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> Short notice, but I just ran across this talk coming up this Wednesday at Drexel (can’t make it myself) 
> on NERF : A Linux based replacement for the UEFI boot firmware interface: 
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> http://drexel.edu/cci/news-events/events/details/?eid=19071&iid=53988 
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> Computer Science Departmental Talk: Dr. Ron Minnich, Google 
> Wednesday, April 18, 2018 
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> 11:00 AM-12:00 PM 
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> "Replace your exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux Kernel" 
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> By Dr. Ron Minnich, Software Engineer at Google 
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> With the WikiLeaks release of the vault7 material, the security of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware used in most PCs and laptops is once again a concern. UEFI is a proprietary and closed-source operating system, with a codebase almost as large as the Linux kernel, that runs when the system is powered on and continues to run after it boots the OS (hence its designation as a “Ring -2 hypervisor"). It is a great place to hide exploits since it never stops running, and these exploits are undetectable by kernels and programs. 
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> Our answer to this is NERF (Non-Extensible Reduced Firmware), an open source software system developed at Google to replace almost all of UEFI firmware with a tiny Linux kernel and initramfs. The initramfs file system contains an init and command line utilities from the u-root project ( http://u-root.tk/ ), which are written in the Go language. 
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> RSVP online at http://drexelcci.info/minnich 
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