Dear Qubes Community, It is our pleasure to announce that the NitroPad T430 [01] has become the third Qubes-certified Laptop [02] for Qubes 4.0! This makes Nitrokey [03] the first vendor to have *two* products that pass Qubes hardware certification, the other being the NitroPad X230 [04].
## What is Qubes Certified Hardware?
Qubes Certified Hardware [05] is hardware that has been certified by the
Qubes developers as compatible with Qubes OS. Beginning with Qubes 4.0,
in order to achieve certification, the hardware must satisfy a rigorous
set of requirements [06], and the vendor must commit to offering
customers the very same configuration (same motherboard, same screen,
same BIOS version, same Wi-Fi module, etc.) for at least one year.
Qubes-certified Laptops [02], in particular, are regularly tested by the
Qubes developers to ensure compatibility with all of Qubes' features.
The developers test all new major versions and updates to ensure that no
regressions are introduced.
It is important to note, however, that Qubes Hardware Certification
certifies only that a particular hardware *configuration* is *supported*
by Qubes. The Qubes OS Project takes no responsibility for any vendor's
manufacturing, shipping, payment, or other practices, nor can we control
whether physical hardware is modified (whether maliciously or otherwise)
*en route* to the user. (However, see below for information about how
this risk is mitigated.)
## About the NitroPad T430
Key features of the NitroPad T430 [01] include:
- Tamper detection through measured boot with Coreboot [07], Heads
[08], and Nitrokey USB hardware, including support for Anti Evil
Maid (AEM) [09]
- Deactivated Intel Management Engine [10]
- User-replaceable cryptographic keys
- Included Nitrokey USB key
- Professional ThinkPad hardware based on the ThinkPad T430 [11]
- Security-conscious shipping to mitigate against third-party
interdiction [12]
For further details, please see the NitroPad T430 [01] product page.
## How to get one
Please see the NitroPad T430 [01] on the Nitrokey website [03] for
purchasing information.
[01] https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitropad-t430-119
[02]
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/#qubes-certified-laptops
[03] https://www.nitrokey.com/ [04] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/#nitropad-x230 [05] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/[06] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/#hardware-certification-requirements
[07] https://www.coreboot.org/ [08] https://github.com/osresearch/heads/ [09] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/anti-evil-maid/ [10] https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme [11] https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T430 [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdiction This announcement is also available on the Qubes website: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2021/06/01/nitropad-t430-qubes-certification/ -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/639e57b0-476b-b4be-5acb-88e8430b2864%40qubes-os.org.
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