This is the Project Oaken hardware secure module (HSM), which is used to secure key generation,
signing and verification using dedicated cryptographic hardware and secure storage.
This project is based on micro-ecc elliptic curve implementation on constrained devices. Here are the features of our HSM. We have fully evaluated the eliptic curve (secp256k1) for ethereum secure key management and signature verification on both Beaglebone Black (BBB) platform and AVR platform.
For the complete integration of the HSM module with Project Oakens ACORN devices, we also built a nodejs library for the zymbit trusted module and we are in the process of further integrating our micro-ecc and nodejs client to their platform.
The final HSM integration with our ACORN devices is shown as the following figure:
To compile the project, download the micro-ecc first and change the uECC_ROOT
definition in Makefile accordingly.
Make a soft link name config.mk to avr_config.mk if targeted for avr mcu or bbb_config.mk
if targeted for Beaglebone Black.
Then you build the project as follows:
make clean
make
To flash to onboard ATmega128p of CryptoCape, install the program jumper first
to wire BBB UART to ATmega UART. For details, check CryptoCape Hookup Guide.
After that, download and install the BBB ATmega328P flasher.