# \[2020\] Securing the Boot Process

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**Created:** [September 7, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2020-securing-the-boot-process/3827 "2024-09-07T15:59:15Z")
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### Author: ![h4x3rotab](https://collective.flashbots.net/user_avatar/collective.flashbots.net/h4x3rotab/32/2540_2.png) [@h4x3rotab](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/h4x3rotab)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2020-securing-the-boot-process/3827/3 "2024-09-08T05:18:29Z")

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Recently I’ve been thinking about a decentralized software based root-of-trust. A significant advantage of that is to dodge all the obvious problems caused by the hardware root-of-trust, like root key extraction and the data loss due to hardware availability.

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