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On Android distros

On Android distros

Posted Jan 3, 2025 16:25 UTC (Fri) by excors (subscriber, #95769)
In reply to: On Android distros by epa
Parent article: Some things to expect in 2025

Basically, yes.

(Technically it's not called a TPM, probably because that's a specific ISO standard and they don't implement that, but it's a vaguely similar idea. On Pixel phones there's a small 'secure' OS running on the main CPU in parallel to Linux, using ARM TrustZone for isolation; plus a security core on the main SoC, with its own dedicated CPU/RAM/etc running another OS; plus a physically separate security chip with yet another simple OS. Some combination of those are used for Verified Boot, attestation, etc. See https://security.googleblog.com/2021/10/pixel-6-setting-n...)


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