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ORSHSEC ORSHIN components’ Secure Development Life Cycle workshop 4th September 2024 – Halifax (Canada) Affiliated event to CHES 2024 (Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems) Organized as a part of CHES, and held in-person as a half-day CHES affiliated...

In this interview, we explore the work of Volodymyr, a Ph.D. candidate at NXP, focused on presilicon firmware security. ORSHIN stands out for its strong emphasis on open source components, particularly the RISC-V architecture, allowing extensive hardware modifications for co-testing...

Daniele presented a paper titled “BLUFFS: Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses” at the 30th ACM CCS Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’23). The conference took place from 26th-30th November in Copenhagen, Denmark. The paper “BLUFFS: Bluetooth...

In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Jan Pleskac, CEO and co-founder of Tropic Square, a company on a mission to build an open-source, transparent, auditable, and secure chip. Jan introduces Tropic Square, founded in 2020 in the Czech...

The 2nd ORSHIN newsletter has been released, which is focused on the results of the first 12 project months.

In our interview, Professor Aurélien Francillon, a key figure at EURECOM Research Center, sheds light on the ORSHIN Project, where open source hardware meets cutting-edge security. Aurélien, an expert in embedded systems security, details his significant role in ORSHIN. Highlighting the...

The ORSHIN team met in Austria on a two-day technical meeting that successfully took place on 23rd – 24th October 2023. Technikon (TEC), as the coordinator, arranged and hosted the meeting in Villach. The meeting commenced with a warm welcome...

To better understand the vision of our ORSHIN project, we created a short explanatory video. What is our aim for the next year, what will a close collaboration of seven European partners bring and where do we see the future...

At this year´s HOST event, we had the pleasure presenting a paper “Lightweight Countermeasures Preventing From Linear Code Extraction Attacks on a RISC-V Core” by the authors Théophile Gousselot, Olivier Thomas, Jean-Max Dutertre, Olivier Potin and Jean-Baptiste Rigaud. On this...

Discover the role of Barbara Gaggl, the project coordinator of the Horizon Europe project Orshin, in driving collaboration and coordination among key stakeholders. In a captivating video interview, Barbara shares insights into the project’s objectives and the challenges in such...

Some of our ORSHIN team members delivered a remarkable keynote talk at the Sophia Antipolis Cyber Summer School, where they shared their expertise. Covering topics such as integrated circuit reverse-engineering, Bluetooth security, and the KNOB attack on Bluetooth Low Energy,...

Welcome to the world of Open-Source Hardware (OSH) with Orshin, where technology meets democratization. Discover how Orshin plans to create secure, reliable, and accessible OSH products. Through their meticulous evaluation method, Orshin assigns scores to crucial aspects. Watch the video...

The ORSHIN workshop, held during the RISC-V Summit Europe in Barcelona, offered a captivating glimpse into the world of open-source hardware security. The technical and scientific lead, introduced the EU project ORSHIN, aimed at revolutionizing hardware security. Presentations covered diverse...

At this year’s DATE 2023 conference we had the pleasure of presenting a paper about our research in the ORSHIN project. The paper “LOW-COST FIRST-ORDER SECURE BOOLEAN MASKING IN GLITCHY HARDWARE” was presented by the authors Dilip Kumar S V,...

The 1st ORSHIN newsletter has been released, which is focused on the results of the first 6 project months.

Maria Chiara Molteni from Security Pattern had a great talk at the technical meeting in Bergamo. She describes the Work Package 2 and the different challenges according to the tasks. Security Pattern leads WP 2 and Maria Chiara is exited...

In the past months, the ORSHIN project made some steps forward with the research and development of the methodology and the security requirements for the trusted life cycle. The Technical meeting in Stezzano near Bergamo from 31st January to 1st...

Today we had our first introduction e-meeting with the CERTIFY project, another Horizon Europe project funded under the same call, also researching on the security lifecycle management. After a short introduction of each partner both projects presented their main objectives,...

Benedikt Gierlichs is a research expert at KU Leuven in Belgium and represents the Scientific Lead of the ORSHIN project. He is responsible for the scientific progress and carries an important role of achieving research and innovation goals of the...

Daniele Antonioli represents the Technical Lead of the ORSHIN project. As an assistant professor at EURECOM in France, he will help managing all technical aspects such as software tools, secure communication for open-source hardware and providing both essential and beyond...

The ORSHIN kick-off meeting in Sophia Antipolis, France, was successfully completed from 20th to 21st October 2022. EURECOM kindly hosted us at Sophia Antipolis Campus, where all seven partners of the ORSHIN team gathered to plan and communicate the details...