Western digital collaborates with lowrisc and google to increase security transparency in data-centric platforms

Western digital corp. announced that it has teamed up with lowrisc, google and a coalition of partners in support of opentitan, the first open-source project building transparent, high-quality reference design and integration guidelines for silicon root of trust (rot) chips that can be used in data storage, compute, and other hardware platforms. leveraging the company’s expertise in data infrastructure and open-source technologies, western digital is working with ecosystem partners to optimize the opentitan framework to meet the diverse security demands of data-centric storage use cases from the core to the edge, including machine-learning applications, smartphones and connected internet of things (iot) devices. the opentitan project was established with the belief that the ability to understand, inspect and verify a device from the chip to the application is critical in data security. as it’s open, adopters of the new opentitan framework can now review, audit and contribute to opentitan’s register-transfer level (rtl) reference design, firmware and integration guidelines. this transparency will help to create more secure rot solutions and enable continued innovation. as part of the company’s ongoing participation in the opentitan project, western digital is collaborating with lowrisc, google and others to develop the opentitan rot, including contributing to its initial overall design, hardware block implementation and firmware. western digital’s support of the project further extends the company’s leadership in advancing open-source innovation, including significant investments in the open-source software and hardware ecosystem, broad participation in open industry standard security groups, and leadership in open-source organizations.
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