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OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust

15 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2020-05-21 · latest 2025-06-29

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  1. The hardware IP is Apache-licensed, https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan . Ideally, it will be possible to buy commercial hardware that incorporates an open silicon RoT, perform a reproducible build of open firmware for the device RoT,…
  2. …not just an FPGA) whilst remaining full open source hardware (you can see all the RTL here: https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan/tree/earlgrey_1.0.0 available under an Apache 2.0 license).
    comment by gchadwick · 2025-02-07 · in TKey – Security for the New World
  3. …circuit you want? As a small illustrative example here's a commit for a timing fix I did recently: https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan/commit/1fc57d2c550f2027... . It's for a specialised CPU for asymmetric crypto. It has a call stack…
    comment by gchadwick · 2023-12-27 · in Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language
  4. …for similar foundational technologies in the hardware world). Our major project focus is OpenTitan: https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan it’s a silicon root of trust being built and funded by a collaboration of major companies, such as…
    comment by gchadwick · 2023-08-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
  5. Worth pointing out OpenTitan (which I work on) here: www.opentitan.org, www.github.com/lowrisc/opentitan It's an open silicon root of trust. All the RTL (systemverilog code that describes the hardware), DV (design verification, which is…
    comment by gchadwick · 2023-07-11 · in Roots of trust are difficult
  6. …for similar foundational technologies in the hardware world). Our major project focus is OpenTitan: https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan it’s a silicon root of trust being built and funded by a collaboration of major companies, such as…
    comment by gchadwick · 2023-07-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
  7. We're aiming to push things in the other direction with OpenTitan: https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan/ It's an Open Silicon root of trust, all RTL (the actual hardware design in SystemVerilog), firmware, documentation and verification…
    comment by gchadwick · 2023-06-23 · in Putting out the hardware dumpster fire
  8. …We're at an advanced stage of development and being open you can take a look at our work right now https://github.com/lowRISC/OpenTitan our nightly regression dashboards demonstrate the project's maturity…
    comment by gchadwick · 2022-12-20 · in Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip
  9. We've changed the URL to that from https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan , as well as the title. The submitted title ("Google, Western Digital, Seagate quietly devolping an open source root of trust") broke the site guidelines badly,…
  10. …plus significant open hardware projects on-going. I shall take the opportunity to plug OpenTitan: https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan It's an open source root of trust being developed collaboratively by multiple companies such as lowRISC…
    comment by gchadwick · 2022-04-23 · in Making open source hardware design a reality
  11. …[2] https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk [3] https://github.com/siliconcompiler/zerosoc [4] https://github.com/lowrisc/opentitan
    comment by jimmyswimmy · 2021-12-07 · in Compiling code into silicon
  12. …uses, implementation of a FIDO2 universal 2-factor security key[2]. [1] https://opentitan.org/ [2] https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan/pull/1125/files#diff-6d...
    comment by rektide · 2020-10-19 · in Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
  13. …it's suitable for taping-out into a real system but still quite simple to understand. OpenTitan ( https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan ) is a notable project we're also working on that uses it, it's an open source root of trust and will…