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RT-131 Root of Trust

Foundational security in SoCs and FPGAs for Chinese IoT servers, gateways, edge devices and sensors

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Designed to be integrated in power and space-constrained SoCs or FPGAs, the RT-131 Root of Trust (formerly VaultIP) is a FIPS 140-3 compliant hardware core that guards the most sensitive assets on chips and establishes the foundation for platform security.

Featuring a firmware-controlled architecture with dedicated secure memories, the RT-131 hardware Root of Trust provides a variety of cryptographic accelerators including AES, SHA-2, OSCCA SM2/SM3/SM4, RSA and ECC. Ideal for power and space-sensitive applications like Chinese IoT server, gateway and edge devices, the RT-131 Root of Trust offers the best balance of size and performance available on the market.

The RT-131 offers a series of key security use cases ‘out of the box’, including:

  • Secure Boot assist to host CPU(s) and protection of key material
  • Secure firmware upgrade management for Host CPU
  • Lifecycle management support
  • Secure Debug support
  • Secure device authentication and identity protection
 

The RT-131 provides a secure asset store:

  • Only the RT-131 can manage, use and access the assets
  • The O/S and applications cannot access key values
  • Applications request asset use by reference
  • Enforces policies for access and use of keys and cryptographic functions
  • Key generation, derivation, storage and transport
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How the Root of Trust Works

The RT-131 Root of Trust is a silicon IP core developed to protect an SoC platform and its operation. It allows the SoC to boot securely and protects sensitive key material and assets. At its heart, its Secure Asset Store secretly generates keys and securely stores them. Fully featured, its cryptographic data plane associated to its DMA offloads the main CPU while never exposing secret data to the OS or the applications. It is designed to provide secure, energy efficient and accelerated security functions.

Diagram of the RT-131 Root of Trust

Readily deployable, the RT-131 Root of Trust is offered in off-the-shelf configurations, allowing a choice tailored to the needs of your application. Configurations differ by cryptographic accelerators contained and 3rd-party certification and standard compliance.

The RT-131 is part of the broad Rambus Root of Trust portfolio, which ranges from small, lightweight cores designed to protect IoT endpoints all the way to fully programmable Root of Trust cores designed to protect the most sensitive government/defense chips and automotive deployments requiring ISO-26262 certifications.

Rambus can optionally offer dedicated FIPS 140-3 support packages to its licensees that provide FIPS 140-3 related certification documentation, FIPS test scripts, and dedicated FIPS support.

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