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Hardware-based HSM vs software-based encryption

This article compared software-only encryption with the use of a dedicated hardware security boundary.

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This article compared software-only encryption with the use of a dedicated hardware security boundary. Its central point was that isolating sensitive operations from a general-purpose operating system can reduce exposure and make the security implementation easier to verify.

Skudo’s work uses FPGA-based hardware security modules as building blocks for embedded communication systems.