George Wilson
George Wilson is a security architect and security development team lead in IBM's Linux Technology Center. Since joining the LTC in 2004, he has led IBM's Linux security certifications and continued development and product exploitation of open source security technology including cryptographic coprocessor support, Trusted Computing, Mandatory Access Control, and OpenPOWER secure boot. Prior to the LTC, he was a software developer for various IBM products for 15 years. He has spoken at internal IBM conferences, LinuxCon, and the Linux Security Summit. He holds a BS CS from Louisiana State University.
OpenPOWER Bootloader Security
The IBM Linux Technology center is developing verified boot and Trusted Computing support for the OpenPOWER bootloader, Petitboot. However, Petitboot is only a thin Linux application that kexec's the OS kernel. We're putting the majority of kernel signature verification and key management functions into the Linux kernel and firmware services. This talk is an overview of the work we're doing.