- Published on November 15, 2019
- In Global Tech
How Google’s OpenTitan Project Will Protect Data Centers & Cloud
- By Ram Sagar
Last week Google announced details of its OpenTitan project, the first open source silicon root of trust (RoT) project.
OpenTitan was a product of the combined efforts of Google, lowRISC, Western Digital and many others. Unlike Google or WD, lowRISC is a not-for-profit company that develops and maintains open source silicon designs and tools for the long term.
Compared to existing proprietary silicon RoT systems, OpenTitan represents a radical level of transparency, where virtually everything can be opened.
Here’s an illustration:
via lowrisc.org
Machines in Google’s data centres, as with most modern computers, have multiple components, including one or more CPUs, RAM, Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), NIC, boot firmware, boot firmware
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Ram Sagar
I have a master's degree in Robotics and I write about machine learning advancements.
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