OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust

opentitan.org

71 points·marcodiego··12 comments

What is a silicon root of trust ?

Ongoing related thread (I guess):

Making open source hardware design a reality - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134201 - April 2022 (16 comments)

Also:

OpenTitan: An open-source silicon root of trust from lowRISC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808804 - Dec 2019 (18 comments)

500k to join LowRisc to get access to their plans seems not like a great way to run a open-source project.

Not sure where you are getting "quietly" from. OpenTitan is a well known project in the embedded/security space and has been discussed here several times: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=opentitan

The part "We've been rather quiet on the PR front" in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31135054 .

Their website is very upfront

https://opentitan.org/

That's what this story should link to.

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, specifically this one:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Can we please uneditorialise the title?

Sure! Please shoot a quick email to hn@ycombinator.com, giving the HN URL for the article and sentence or two stating your concern.

at least fix the spelling mistake: devolping -> developing

Fixed now. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31137648.

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