The recent news about an alleged backdoor in #ESP32 chips is largely overhyped, but it’s a good opportunity to explain how we designed #CHERIoT to make this kind of attack almost impossible by construction.

SCI and the CHERI Alliance will both be at Embedded World next week. Come and talk to us about CHERIoT and how you can adopt it with SCI’s ICENI chips in your next products.

@david_chisnall is there CHERI hardware I can buy at this point? I'm excited to try it

@dziban We're expecting to get our first ICENI chips back from the fab in the second half of the year (and will happily take orders before then...). The Sonata board (FPGA) from lowRISC lets you prototype things that will run on ICENI.

We also have a few simulators in our dev container. The one from Google runs at around 20 MIPS, which is similar to the FPGA performance.

@david_chisnall I think the parentheses placement is a typo here: "and one that (as an open-source platform, we strongly encourage!)"

@buherator Thanks, fixed!