| You must be astroturfing (or whatever it's called - submarining, secretly shilling, etc.) for the Mill project[0]! ;) Every once in a blue moon someone from that group returns from "investing sweat equity into patents" (or however they're [not] getting paid for whatever they're doing) to HN's reality distortion field (welcome!) and blesses us with wisdom[1] from their awe-inspiring project currently classified as vaporware by many such as myself with no public evidence of even a single physical hardware prototype. I would be interested to hear your thoughts about that project, and also hope my playful jab (not too harsh?) can provoke any of them to respond to your comments (maybe they should hire you!). There are other projects mentioned in those comments that you may find interesting as well (CheriBSD, L4 Linux, etc.) Also, any thoughts you have time to share on the adaptability of the various open hardware RISCV projects, which seem to be at the beginning stages of delivering just beyond basic functionality without much priority allocated for your secure performance concerns. I was surprised to see no specific mention of it in your initial​ comment. To the best of my very limited knowledge, a genuinely secure processor, even versus nation-state level actors, is unfortunately still non-existent or near uselessly underperformant (is that a word?) at this point. Not to mention all of the various other, often easily side-channel attacked, bits and pieces are required to have a working computer! Perhaps an introduction is already behind you but this is a helpful recent discussion for anyone developing an interest in this aspect of information security: Ask HN: Where do I get started on ASICs, FPGA, RTL, Verilog et. al? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15379418 PS. Paging HN user nickpsecurity[2] once they wake up since this topic is pretty much their personal hobby horse here. Your comment seems like it was posted by this user a few years ago in an alternate universe, which I mention as a nice way of documenting the very unique similarities of your level of concern. [0] https://millcomputing.com/ [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22mill%20project%22&sort=byDa... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=user:nickpsecurity%20hardware&... - specifically, on real-world implementations of secure systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628845 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692557 | etc. - bonus: on web browsing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962444 |