Vulnerability Development: Re: Reading PC BIOS "flash" (NVRAM)

[anorexia () TELKOM NET (AnorEXia)]

Hum, The Intel Flash memories Specs? I think it is a good res. altough
Intel is not famous for following standards and their Flash memory is one
of the most expenisve, take a look

http://developer.intel.com

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Bluefish wrote:

> I'm the main developer of !BIOS, a PC BIOS Security and Maintains
> toolkit. I've recieved questions about adding a flash support to the
> toolkit.
>
> This is in light of three factors;
>
>  - Flashes are known to contain algorithms and deafult passwords;
>    at least two cases of reverse-engineering flashes or RAM dumps are
>    known to be behind successfull BIOS password crackers.
>
>  - The Flashupdates are often compressed and/or encrypted, to simply dump
>    current flash should prove to reduce work.
>
>  - There is a shortage of utility in this field; !BIOS can currently only
>    dump BIOS dedicated RAM areas, and some flash-update-deciphers exists.
>
> So, therefor I'm interested in pointers to sites, books or sourcecode
> which reads from the common PC BIOS "flash".
>
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