[coreboot] Intel ME The Way of the Static Analysis

Igor Skochinsky skochinsky at mail.ru
Sat May 6 12:56:05 CEST 2017


Hello Denis,

Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 2:13:13 AM, you wrote:

DGC> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:38:15 +0800
DGC> Shawn <citypw at gmail.com> wrote:

>> slide:
>> https://www.troopers.de/downloads/troopers17/TR17_ME11_Static.pdf
>> 
>> video:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_aokrfcoUk
>> 

DGC> Thanks a lot! This is very interesting.

DGC> I probably missed something about the ROM bypass: Since you have flash
DGC> images with ROM Bypass in use, what would prevent someone from:
DGC> - Finding and buying hardware with ROM bypass enabled. Are there any
DGC>   business or consumers laptops/desktops/workstation with such feature?
DGC> - Writing your own code in the ROM ME partition and executing it.

ROM Bypass only works on pre-production hardware (e.g. reference
boards used for initial development). On production hw it's ignored and mask ROM is always used.


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