Joakim Bech

about

Joakim is a Distinguished Engineer at Linaro and has been a Linux user for more than 15 years where he spent most of the time in his professional career working with security on embedded devices. Joakim started up the Security Working Group in Linaro in 2013 and was the lead for that team until 2020. Before joining Linaro he had various roles such as architect, team leader and development engineer.

Posts

• Device Tree: Future Improvements

  Friday, October 23, 2020

  In this article, Joakim Bech gives an overview on what exactly Device Tree is and what it does as well as its future improvements. Read more here!

• Let’s talk about Homomorphic Encryption

  Friday, May 22, 2020

  Homomorphic Encryption. Encryption is something that all of us are using whether we know it or not. Many of the things that you are doing on a daily basis requires...

• Implications of Meltdown and Spectre : Part 1

  Wednesday, January 24, 2018

  In this article, Joakim Bech looks at the implications of meltdown & spectre in practice and how it could affect secure domains like TrustZone. Read more here!

• TEE Development With No Hardware - Is That Possible?

  Monday, November 28, 2016

  In this article, Joakim Bech questions whether you actually need hardware for TEE development. Read more on his findings here!

• OP-TEE Test: Testing a Trusted Execution Environment

  Wednesday, February 10, 2016

  In this article, Joakim Bech provides a general background about OP-TEE as well as testing OP-TEE using a tool called xtest (optee_test). Read more here!

• OP-TEE, open-source security for the mass-market

  Wednesday, September 3, 2014

  In this article, Joakim Bech takes a detailed look at the history of OP-TEE, the open-source security for the mass market. Read more on what OP-TEE is here.