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Do you or anyone happen to know if one of these U74 based boards (including the Star64 from Pine) feature encryption extensions? I tried looking but I couldn't
by irusensei 4y ago
Do you or anyone happen to know if one of these U74 based boards (including the Star64 from Pine) feature encryption extensions? I tried looking but I couldn't find any mention on the CPU spec sheet.
I'm a firm believer that any machine packing personal data must have the capability to encrypt data at acceptable performance levels. And while I'm pretty sure I'm going to raise comments about hardware backdoor and state backed attackers I'm more worried about a thief or burglar having access to my personal data.
I have a couple of silent Rockpro64s running in a closet NAS and other applications. While those are not very performant they can handled 200-600MB/s encrypted data throughput and thus saturate a gigabit network.
- andrekandre 4y agoi have a couple of these boards that use u74 (hifive unmatched) and afaik they don't have any official encryption extensions (RV64GC + bit manipulation extension) [0] [0] https://www.sifive.com/cores/u74 https://www.sifive.com/cores/u74
- snvzz 4y agoJust note that unmatched U74 aren't the same version of U74 as used in VisionFive2 or Star64. Yes, they change over time. JH7110 uses the 21Q1 version. I believe. They have more extensions and are faster / clock, relative to unmatched.
- andrekandre 4y agointeresting, good info!