OPEN-SOURCE SECURITY CHIP RELEASED

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The OpenTitan coalition has announced the first commercial silicon chip that includes built-in open-source hardware security. The chip, called Earl Grey, features a number of built-in hardware security and cryptography modules in a self-contained microprocessor. It uses a security protocol called Root of Trust, which provides an on-chip source of cryptographic keys that is inaccessible remotely. As part of the project, OpenTitan developed a framework for open-source hardware design that provides rules for documentation, pre-defined interfaces and quality standards, and a governance structure that lays out how different partners make decisions as a collective.