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

Persmule persmule at gmail.com
Fri May 6 06:17:51 CEST 2016


Sorry for my rudeness, but I do not believe copy protection, or any form of immoral Digital Restriction Management is able to be a solution to count products. 

On Fri May   6 11:39:54 2016 Zheng Bao <fishbaoz at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> > 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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