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Alexandre Oliva · 29w
I'm not seeing the difference you're claiming. the SOF binaries and the signature (by an Intel-controlled secret key) on them work exactly like Tivo-supplied binaries and signatures (by a Tivo-contro...
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@Alexandre Oliva @[email protected] I’m no expert on SOF but I’m not sure this is a pure tivoization example? The SOF project contains a lot of FOSS code. But according to that documentation, it all requires a non-free signed firmware to be loaded. I’m not sure the source code for that firmware is public at all? But it doesn’t seem unlikely that (at least some parts of) SOF is still useful even if you don’t load that firmware.
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Alexandre Oliva · 29w
from what I gathered when I looked into it, the firmware developed and distributed by the SOF project is all free software, and it's designed to always be signed in order for it to be loaded. the twist is that they've made a public signing key, that works on some devices, and a private signing key,...