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Slug: Hardware
Title: Cryptech Hardware
Date: 2016-12-15 22:43
Category: Hardware
Generation 1
Various generic FPGA development boards.
Generation 2
//Novena//
Generation 3
An Alpha version of a CrypTech HSM, currently in early design

There is no real tamper wrapping and no tamper sensors.  The tamper switch is used to simulate tamper detection to test the system's tamper reaction(s).
For the ARM, we think we want

No or minimal magic blobs because it's inside the security boundary
Support for booting, flash file system, and USB
Do not need memory protection or allocation, threads, video or sound or ...
Some speed, but the crypto is done in the FPGA
All components must be free of any GPL-like virus or restrictions

The BOM and board requirements for the alpha board.