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Encrypting In Yocto With fscryptctl

In this blog text I’ll briefly cover how to use fscryptctl to encrypt and decrypt directories in an embedded Linux system.

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April 2, 2025 by ejaaskel Quick Tips

Yocto Hardening: File System Encryption with fscrypt

Let’s continue encryption with the second part and move on to file system encryption.

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March 18, 2025 by ejaaskel Yocto

Yocto Hardening: Block Device Encryption with dm-crypt

Data safety is crucial in the embedded systems. The devices can store information that should be kept secret. Encryption can be used to achieve exactly that.

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March 3, 2025 by ejaaskel Yocto

Linux Initramfs, With and Without Yocto

Let’s get started with an introduction of what an initramfs is, and then get into more technical stuff.

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February 4, 2025 by ejaaskel Linux

The First Steps With Buildroot

This text contains instructions on how to get started with Buildroot and some first impressions from a long-time Yocto developer.

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January 16, 2025 by ejaaskel Embedded

Building a Karaoke Machine with Linux and UltraStar

Lately, the blog posts here have been quite serious: TPMs, virtualization, integrity checks, etc. However, those things are not the best thing about computers.

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December 13, 2024 by ejaaskel Projects

Yocto Hardening: IMA and EVM

Let’s continue measuring where we left off, move from the bootloader side to the kernel world, and try out the IMA, integrity measurement subsystem in Linux.

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December 3, 2024 by ejaaskel Yocto

Disabling Shell History File from BusyBox

Here are my tricks for disabling shell history files (~/.ash_history and ~/.hush_history) from BusyBox shells ash and hush.

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November 24, 2024 by ejaaskel Quick Tips

Fuzzing Remote Targets with Syzkaller

This is the promised follow-up to my earlier Syzkaller text. This time I’ll show how to make Syzkaller work on an actual hardware that is not emulated.

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November 15, 2024 by ejaaskel Fuzzing

Adding Key-Based SSH Authentication to Yocto

This text is supposed to be a quick crash course on the different keys used in SSH servers, and how to generate and use them in Yocto.

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November 6, 2024 by ejaaskel Yocto
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  • Shashank P says:
    Thank you very much ! .. Helped me get going on...
  • ejaaskel says:
    That seems to be a solid choice, thanks for the suggestion.
  • ejaaskel says:
    Thanks, great to hear you like it! I have planned the...
  • Joel says:
    Ohh, and ARM SoC with a FPGA called Avnet Zuboard 1CG...
  • Joel says:
    Very interesting! SPI demo next perhaps?
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