[coreboot] How to protect binary in flash chip? OTP?

Zheng Bao fishbaoz at hotmail.com
Fri May 6 05:39:54 CEST 2016


I don't protect my source. I gave the source to customers. I just want to protect binary.
Customer doesnt know how to build.

In a business, customer dont tell the correct production amount as what is wrote in the contract. 
It is not my fault.



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> From: persmule at gmail.com 
> To: fishbaoz at hotmail.com; coreboot at coreboot.org 
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] How to protect binary in flash chip? OTP? 
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 10:41:44 +0800 
>  
>  
> Don't you feel ashamed to ask coreboot, a free firmware project, for  
> copy protection techiques? 
>  
> On Fri May  6 08:45:51 2016 Zheng Bao  
> <fishbaoz at hotmail.com<mailto:fishbaoz at hotmail.com>> wrote: 
> > Hi, All, 
> > Is there any way to protect the binary image in flash chip from being 
> > copied? Once the customers gets the image, they can produce millions of 
> > board and do not tell me. I just want to know the amount of the mass 
> > production. 
> > 
> > OTP seems to be a way, but it is not 100%. The data in OTP is readable 
> > and can be copied to a new chip's OTP erea. 
> > 
> > Do you guys have any more suggestion? 
> > 
> > Zheng 
> > 
> > 
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