[Cryptech Tech] goals / use cases

[Ben Laurie]

On 24 January 2015 at 17:40, Fredrik Thulin <fredrik at thulin.net> wrote:
> What methodology can we use to choose MCU? I think the choice at this time is
> either for an ARM Cortex M4 (later on perhaps upgraded to pin compatible new
> M7), or Cortex A8/A9. I think both will work for this "not necessarily fast"
> target, but there would/could be a huge difference in how we do development in
> the next year or so based on this choice.

Can I point out CHERI?

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

In short: a MIPS-64 softcore with a capability coprocessor (i.e.
fine-grained [down to the byte] memory controls), a FreeBSD port and
LLVM-based toolchain.