diff --git a/recipes-initramfs/cip-core-initramfs/cip-core-initramfs.bb b/recipes-initramfs/cip-core-initramfs/cip-core-initramfs.bb
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+#
+# CIP Core, generic profile
+#
+# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2021
+#
+# Authors:
+#  Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+inherit initramfs
+
+INITRAMFS_INSTALL += " \
+    initramfs-verity-hook \
+    "
diff --git a/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/files/verity.conf-hook b/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/files/verity.conf-hook
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+BUSYBOX=y
diff --git a/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/files/verity.hook b/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/files/verity.hook
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+#!/bin/sh
+PREREQ=""
+prereqs()
+{
+    echo "$PREREQ"
+}
+case $1 in
+prereqs)
+    prereqs
+    exit 0
+    ;;
+esac
+
+. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions
+# Begin real processing below this line
+
+manual_add_modules dm_mod
+manual_add_modules dm_verity
+
+copy_exec /sbin/veritysetup
+copy_exec /sbin/dmsetup
+copy_file library /lib/cryptsetup/functions /lib/cryptsetup/functions
+copy_file library /usr/share/verity-env/verity.env /usr/share/verity-env/verity.env
diff --git a/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/files/verity.script.tmpl b/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/files/verity.script.tmpl
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+++ b/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/files/verity.script.tmpl
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+#!/bin/sh
+prereqs()
+{
+    # Make sure that this script is run last in local-top
+    # If the script cryptroot is installed this script
+    # should be second to last
+    local req
+    for req in "${0%/*}"/*; do
+        script="${req##*/}"
+        if [ "$script" != "${0##*/}" ] && [ "$script" != "cryptroot" ]; then
+            printf '%s\n' "$script"
+        fi
+    done
+}
+case $1 in
+prereqs)
+    prereqs
+    exit 0
+    ;;
+esac
+
+. /scripts/functions
+. /lib/cryptsetup/functions
+. /usr/share/verity-env/verity.env
+# Even if this script fails horribly, make sure there won't be a chance the
+# current $ROOT will be attempted.  As this device most likely contains a
+# perfectly valid filesystem, it would be mounted successfully, leading to a
+# broken trust chain.
+echo "ROOT=/dev/null" >/conf/param.conf
+wait_for_udev 10
+case "$ROOT" in
+    PART*)
+        # root was given as PARTUUID= or PARTLABEL=. Use blkid to find the matching
+        # partition
+        ROOT=$(blkid --list-one --output device --match-token "$ROOT")
+        ;;
+    "")
+        # No Root device was given. Use veritysetup verify to search matching roots
+        partitions=$(blkid -o device)
+        for part in $partitions; do
+            if [ "$(blkid -p ${part} --match-types novfat -s USAGE -o value)" = "filesystem" ]; then
+                if veritysetup verify \
+                   "$part" "$part" "${ROOT_HASH}" \
+                   --hash-offset "${HASH_OFFSET}";then
+                    ROOT="$part"
+                    break
+                fi
+            fi
+        done
+        ;;
+esac
+set -- "$ROOT" verityroot
+if ! veritysetup open \
+     ${VERITY_BEHAVIOR_ON_CORRUPTION} \
+     --data-block-size "${DATA_BLOCK_SIZE}" \
+     --hash-block-size "${HASH_BLOCK_SIZE}" \
+     --data-blocks "${DATA_BLOCKS}" \
+     --hash-offset "${HASH_OFFSET}" \
+     --salt "${SALT}" \
+     "$1" "$2" "$1" "${ROOT_HASH}"; then
+    panic "Can't open verity rootfs - continuing will lead to a broken trust chain!"
+fi
+
+wait_for_udev 10
+
+if ! ROOT="$(dm_blkdevname verityroot)"; then
+    panic "Can't find the verity root device!"
+fi
+
+echo "ROOT=${ROOT}" >/conf/param.conf
diff --git a/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/initramfs-verity-hook_0.1.bb b/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/initramfs-verity-hook_0.1.bb
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+++ b/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-verity-hook/initramfs-verity-hook_0.1.bb
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+#
+# CIP Core, generic profile
+#
+# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2021
+#
+# Authors:
+#  Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+inherit dpkg-raw
+
+SRC_URI += " \
+    file://verity.conf-hook \
+    file://verity.hook \
+    file://verity.script.tmpl \
+    "
+
+VERITY_BEHAVIOR_ON_CORRUPTION ?= "--restart-on-corruption"
+
+TEMPLATE_FILES = "verity.script.tmpl"
+TEMPLATE_VARS += "VERITY_BEHAVIOR_ON_CORRUPTION"
+
+DEBIAN_DEPENDS = "initramfs-tools, cryptsetup"
+
+VERITY_IMAGE_RECIPE ?= "cip-core-image-read-only"
+
+VERITY_ENV_FILE = "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${VERITY_IMAGE_RECIPE}-${DISTRO}-${MACHINE}.verity.env"
+
+do_install[depends] += "${VERITY_IMAGE_RECIPE}:do_verity_image"
+do_install[cleandirs] += " \
+    ${D}/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks \
+    ${D}/usr/share/verity-env \
+    ${D}/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top \
+    ${D}/usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d"
+
+do_install() {
+    # Insert the veritysetup commandline into the script
+    if [ -f "${VERITY_ENV_FILE}" ]; then
+        install -m 0600 "${VERITY_ENV_FILE}" "${D}/usr/share/verity-env/verity.env"
+    else
+        bberror "Did not find ${VERITY_ENV_FILE}. initramfs will not be build correctly!"
+    fi
+    install -m 0755 "${WORKDIR}/verity.script" \
+        "${D}/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/verity"
+    install -m 0755 "${WORKDIR}/verity.hook" \
+        "${D}/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/verity"
+}
+
+addtask do_install after do_transform_template
