[kibwen]

Give me hardware with a discrete cryptographic processing unit which is just a CPU that does has no speculation, caching, or other nonsense. In other words, a CPU that actually works the way it's supposed to work. I don't care that idiots want their wrong software to be as fast as possible, I want correct software that's as fast as possible, and no faster.

[layer8]

As the paper notes (page 21 last paragraph), this isn’t just about cryptographic algorithms though, it’s about the processing of any “secret” data.

[pjc50]

A TPM, HSM, or Intel AES-NI type solution?

[hinkley]

You know given the rise of chiplets, a custom core isn’t a stupid idea…

[hinkley]

Are we going to end up doing all our crypto on the big.LITTLE cores?

I wonder if they’re fast enough…

[adamc]

But they want to sell as many cpus as possible, right? So that market wins.

[Sesse__]

You can easily buy such CPUs in the microcontroller market, just go ahead. They're being sold by the billions.

[adamc]

Presumably, performance also matters.

[Sesse__]

Well, if you say you don't want caching and speculation, then you've essentially given up on performance already. There's a reason why these small cores are slow.