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Black Hat · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Ivan Krstic's Black Hat talk on Apple platform security, including the Find My design that uses elliptic curve key diversification to locate offline devices privately. It also covers hardware features such as the T2 chip and secure boot hardening.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a rare insider look at Apple's security architecture and the reasoning behind its hardware choices.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Good talk behind the reason for the T2 chip and some other Apple security stuff”

    Explains the reason for the T2 chip and other Apple security.

    PascLeRasc, 2019-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?”

  2. “this [0] video covers it over about seven minutes.”

    Seven-minute explanation of Apple's IOMMU-based x86 secure boot hardening.

    paxswill, 2020-03 · Recommendation · in “Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust”

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Topics: ios security, t2 chip, find my, secure boot, black hat

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