Christian Kellner
Michael is a Software Engineer from Berlin where he works on low-level Linux software at Kinvolk GmbH, a Linux development company. Before that, he was working as a Backend and Operations Engineer for a Swiss Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider.
Session
Thunderbolt 3 is a high-speed IO technology that can be used to connect docks, graphic cards or other peripherals requiring high speed. However, the mechanism that allows these high speeds also poses a security risk because malicious devices could obtain sensitive information from the computer's memory. As a result kernel provides an interface to authorize thunderbolt devices before they can be used. The talk will explain the technology and explain the enablement we did to make thunderbolt 3 work for GNU/Linux.