The open-source TROPIC01 is finally available with engineering samples and development kits. Pretty exciting stuff, in my opinion. SatoshiLabs is the company behind TropicSquare and Trezor, so I expect Trezor will be among the first companies to integrate the TROPIC01 into their hardware wallets.
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Reject YubiKeys! Embrace open secure elements and keys!
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Industry’s First Open Architecture Tamper-proof Secure Element
What about OpenTitan and Tillitis?
(Tillitis might not use an open source one, I don’t remember, but OpenTitan began fabrication last month lol)
Tamper-proof
bold claim, maybe I would say “tamper resistant” lol
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This was also early February apparently. Either way I think it’s positive to see two similar offerings entering the market.
A common misnomer but yeah tamper resistant is more accurate and even a claim of tamper resistance will need to be battle tested.
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I’ve generally been pretty skeptical of anything to do with blockchain/crypto/web3/etc but this does look pretty neat. Even if I don’t quite understand what it’s for exactly? Lots of hardware engineering flies a bit too far above my head.
There are open source commercial derivatives (not just closed source based on opentitan) that have been in the market since last year.
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The Tropic01 is now officially available and shipping. Personally I’m pretty excited to see what products will adopt it, perhaps starting with the mysterious new trezor device being revealed in a week?
https://xcancel.com/tropicsquare/status/1975260178728517809#m
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If I get it right its an open source secure element.
If they implement it into the next Trezor we have a hardware wallet and security key that is FULLY open source, so from the hardware up to the firmware and the companion app.