Open Source Summit + ELC Europe 2019

Mender is an open source update manager for embedded devices. Rich-IoT is Mediatek's initiative for rapid development of voice assistant, connected display and smart camera solutions products based on a series of AI-supported chipset platforms. Rity is an open source software stack developed by BayLibre for Rich-IoT featuring a full chain-of-trust implementation including integrity assurance for the root filesystem using dm-verity.

Mender is often preferred by product designers for its intuitive web UI, hosting services and ease of integration but until the release of version 2.0 using encryption or integrity checking was difficult due to the built-in limitations of the client and artifact format.

Version v2.0 (released in May 2019) addresses these issues by providing Update Modules - a flexible way of extending mender functionality.

During this talk I'll present the new features in mender and give an overview of how easy it is to prototype a secured system using them.