Dell Products Inc.

Jack Elmer Fewx

Elie Antoun Jreij

Marshal F Savage

Michael Emery Brown

Prashanth Giri

Jitendra Gul Jagasia

Nagendra Varma Totakura

Vasanth Venkataramanappa

Ching-Jye Chang

Michael Brown

Michael Daniele

An information handling system may include a host system; and a management controller comprising at least one management controller processor and a management controller storage resource. The management controller may be configured to: install a firmware image onto the management controller storage resource; subsequent to installing the firmware image, receive a plugin application; cryptographically verify a source of the plugin application; install the plugin application onto the management controller storage resource; and execute the plugin application.

Secure management controller enhancement with containerized applications

An information handling system includes a first memory that stores a firmware image associated with the baseboard management controller. The baseboard management controller begins execution of a kernel, which in turn performs a boot operation of the information handling system. The baseboard management controller begins a file system initialization program. During the boot operation, the baseboard management controller performs a full read and cryptographic verification of the firmware image via a DM-Verity daemon of the file system initialization program. In response to the full read of the firmware image being completed, the baseboard management controller provides a flush command to the kernel via the DM-Verity daemon. The baseboard management controller flushes a cache buffer associated with the baseboard management controller via the kernel.

Cryptographically verifying a firmware image with boot speed in an information handling system

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