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While this article does do a good job of illuminating the potential challenges, it's a bit frustrating that there's such scant discussion of solutions. IMO, th
by mahemm 7y ago
While this article does do a good job of illuminating the potential challenges, it's a bit frustrating that there's such scant discussion of solutions.
IMO, this problem has been solved pretty comprehensively by the TUF framework[1], which has a number of solid implementations[2][3]. Many of these implementations even have reliable third-party reviews, so should be pretty trustworthy.
[1]: https://theupdateframework.github.io/ https://theupdateframework.github.io/
[2]: https://github.com/flynn/go-tuf https://github.com/flynn/go-tuf
[3]: https://github.com/theupdateframework/notary https://github.com/theupdateframework/notary
- _caw 7y agoFor a solution geared more towards the automotive use-case involving multiple vendors, see Uptane[1], a customization of TUF. The IETF is also working towards a standard for IoT updates[2] which I've found helpful. [1]: https://uptane.github.io https://uptane.github.io [2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/suit/documents/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/suit/documents/
- nrclark 7y agoThe solution that the article authors want is for you to buy their service.