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Turning IoT Stack Sideways

July 6, 2019

At the Zurich RISC-V Workshop in June, Professor Sandro Pinto and his team at Universidade do Minho, Portugal, presented their work that describes the first fully functional framework for developing secure Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems on RISC-V processors. The proposed horizontal software stack is based exclusively on a number of open-source, commercial-grade technologies readily available today. The bedrock of the system is the Hex-Five Multizone Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), which provides the infrastructure to execute multiple isolated zones, communicating through a secure messaging infrastructure, and other security primitives such as a secure boot.

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The remaining components, each encapsulated into a different zone, include:

  • A modified, secure implementation of FreeRTOS, with full support for user-mode interrupts
  • A TCP/IP stack (picoTCP) complemented by a TLS library (wolfSSL)
  • A minimalist root of trust (RoT) implementation for key management
  • A command-line interface for overall system management

 

To learn more, refer to this short paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334151876_The_industry-first_secure_IoT_stack_for_RISC-V_a_research_project

And video:

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