Apple to add MTM support to iPhone?

Posted by Ken Y-N on November 3rd, 2009 at 03:21pm

There’s a bit of a buzz going around about this job posting from Apple, looking for an iPhone OS Platform Security Manager. The first paragraph of the job description is:

The Core OS group is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on the platform security of iPhone OS. The team is responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of security threats.

I’ve highlighted the key portions in italics; secure booting is a core aspect of the Trusted Computing Group’s Mobile Trusted Module specification, the means by which a system can be started up in a known good state. Furthermore, partitioning and hardening of security domains suggests perhaps using the TrustZone within the ARM chips that power all iPhones to create a trusted execution space for security features.

However, secure boot is not a technology exclusive to the MTM, and nothing in the rest of the job description suggests that experience with standards is a benefit, thus the answer to the question in the headline is "No, most likely not."

Tags: iphone, secure boot, trustzone

Under MTM Tags: iphone, secure boot, trustzone