security

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16 Sep 2026
6 min

Four different things people call “security” on an embedded device

Authenticity, integrity, confidentiality and identity are four separate problems with four separate answers. Three private keys that must never be mixed up, why the firmware trust anchor does not identify a device, and the one I had backwards.

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11 Sep 2026
15 min

Beyond mTLS: identity for a fleet of IoT devices

Certificates and mTLS are the easy part. The hard part is identity over a device's whole life: first enrolment, rotation, power loss mid-rotation, and a gateway that was offline for two years.

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