Assessing the Performance of OpenTitan as Cryptographic Accelerator in Secure Open-Hardware System-on-Chips

arXiv:2402.10395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: RISC-V open-source systems are emerging in deployment scenarios where safety and security are critical. OpenTitan is an open-source silicon root-of-trust designed to be deployed in a wide range of systems, from high-end to deeply embedded secure environments. Despite the availability of various cryptographic hardware accelerators that make OpenTitan suitable for offloading cryptographic workloads from the main processor, there has been no accurate and quantitative establishment of the benefits derived from using OpenTitan as a secure …

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