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Yay, the embargo was finally lifted yesterday so we can talk about the UK Government funding for #CHERIoT!
They funded us (SCI) to do two projects, for a total of £7.7M:
@david_chisnall I'm curious about the post-quantum accelerator. Where I come from (the SSH community) people are still arguing about which PQ algorithms to use. But surely a hardware accelerator has to be specific to particular algorithms. Which ones have won the lottery?
@david_chisnall I have no idea what "a dual-issue core, post-quantum crypto hardware, and an edge inference accelerator" means, but it sounds incredibly impressive and huge congratulations on your funding.
@david_chisnall congratulations 🎉
@david_chisnall Congratulations!
@david_chisnall ah I am also working on a different aspect of this project. Just posted a link last night to the same news piece. Small world!
@david_chisnall I’m with the University of Birmingham team working on Zephyr.
@heavyimage Ah, I hope you've read my posts in why we wrote a new RTOS for CHERIoT (TL;DR: retrofitting CHERI to existing RTOS designs will require either a load of breaking changes or leaving most of the security benefits of a CHERI platform on the floor.)
It will be very interesting to see if you can get anything useful out of Zephyr. Are you at CHERITech?
@david_chisnall no, sadly. Link to those posts?
@david_chisnall congrats that’s fantastic news! I only understood it as far as rust, any public facing info might need some more clarification.
@david_chisnall and the press release omfg pure garbage. Not yours obviously but somebody made a dogs breakfast out of it.
@dch Yup, we'll do a proper press release soon. They didn't actually tell us the embargo was lifted, they just pushed out the press release. The minister changed just as the projects were starting, so everything needed more review. But I do enjoy the quotes:
Someone from the government saying these projects are important.
Someone from SCI saying the SCI project is important.
Someone from Microsoft saying the SCI project is important.
Someone from Google saying the SCI project is important.
@david_chisnall got it. Very Important Project.
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