Versal ACAP Authentication Certificates - 2020.2 English

The Authentication Certificate is a structure that contains all the information related to the authentication of a partition. This structure has the public keys and the signatures that BootROM/PLM needs to verify. There is an Authentication Header in each Authentication Certificate, which gives information like the key sizes, algorithm used for signing, and so forth. Unlike the other devices, the Authentication Certificate is prepended or attached to the beginning of the actual partition, for which authentication is enabled. If you want Bootgen to perform authentication on the meta headers, specify it explicitly under the ‘metaheader’ bif attribute. See BIF Attribute Reference for information on usage.

Versal ACAP uses RSA-4096 authentication and ECDSA algorithms for authentication. The following table provides the format of the Authentication Certificate for the Versal ACAP.