If I am gone invest many millions into infrastructure, you better expect that I expect some basic safety features.
Of all the things, they have actually not talked about the hardware root of trust itself that much. There is no full podcast on only the root of trust. Compared to things like boot fireware, VM migration, network design and so on and so on.
What they have talked more about is system firmware in general, including their embedded OS. Partly why the chip they used for root-of-trust came up is because they found multiple bugs in that chip. Turns out secure silicon is really hard, and if you don't have secure silicon you don't have a great hardware root-of-trust.
Pretty much everything with Oxide is, generally do what the industry has done before and uses, they just want to do it better and more open. And root-of-trust is one example of that.
I actually wish they would talk about it more, as they have not shared much. I think they have mentioned it will be part of some podcast episode sometimes.
A few different podcast episodes about the product:
Storage: Oxide and Friends 2/12/2024 -- Crucible: Oxide Storage
OS: Oxide and Friends 1/29/2024 -- Helios
Virtualization: Oxide and Friends 6/12/2023 -- Virtualizing Time
Networking: Oxide and Friends 2/27/2023 -- Rack-scale Networking
Boot: Twitter Space 10/10/2022 -- Holistic Boot
Firmware: Twitter Space 12/13/2021 -- The Pragmatism of Hubris
Switch: Twitter Space 11/29/2021 -- The Sidecar Switch
As mentioned, there is no podcast about the design Hardware Root of Trust yet.
You are saying it is both table stakes and no one wants it. Ok. Wonder what the 3rd comment will say