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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

Fuzzing Yocto Kernel Modules with Syzkaller

As a follow-up to my black-box fuzzing text, I will present a more accurate approach to fuzzing using Syzkaller and grey-box fuzzing.

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October 27, 2024 by ejaaskel Fuzzing

Raspberry Pi 4, LetsTrust TPM and Yocto

Getting LetsTrust TPM module working with Yocto was fairly simple but there were a few things I learned along the way that may be worth sharing.

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September 20, 2024 by ejaaskel Embedded

Yocto Hardening: Measured Boot

So far we have mostly been focusing on hardening the kernel and userspace, but this time we will zoom out a bit and take a look at securing the entire system.

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August 27, 2024 by ejaaskel Yocto

Making USB Device With STM32 + TinyUSB

Have you ever wondered how USB devices are made? I sure have. Follow this tutorial to see how to create a simple USB device.

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August 3, 2024 by ejaaskel Embedded

Black-Box Fuzzing Kernel Modules in Yocto

It’s been almost ten years since I wrote my thesis. It was about guided fuzz testing, and as usual, I have done no actual work related to the topic.

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June 19, 2024 by ejaaskel Fuzzing
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