Open {hardware} specialist ANAVI has introduced an add-on designed to spice up the safety of initiatives constructed across the Raspberry Pi household of single-board computer systems: a Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) that slots straight onto the general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header.
“Designed as open supply {hardware}, ANAVI TPM 2.0 is meant for builders, hobbyists, and professionals who require enhanced safety for Raspberry Pi-based initiatives,” ANAVI explains of its creation. “It gives a dependable answer for safe key storage and cryptographic operations, and it may additionally operate as a True {Hardware} Random Quantity Generator (TRNG), providing a high-entropy supply appropriate for security-critical purposes.”
The ANAVI TPM 2.0, out there in straight (left) and angled (proper) variants, provides a Trusted Platform Module 2.0 to any Raspberry Pi SBC. (📷: ANAVI)
The center of the tiny add-on board is an Infineon Optiga SLB 9672, which implements the complete Trusted Platform Module 2.0 specification — the identical specification Microsoft has made obligatory for techniques operating its Home windows 11 working system. Moderately than the same old connector to put it on a desktop or laptop computer PC motherboard, although, ANAVI’s tackle the expertise makes use of a 2×5-pin header to attach it to the GPIO header on any mannequin of Raspberry Pi single-board pc.
As soon as put in, the TPM communicates with the host over the SPI bus — and makes use of an current TPM system tree binary overlay already included within the Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution, that means that it ought to work with out fuss. The {hardware} design information, in the meantime, have already been launched on GitHub below the reciprocal Artistic Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Worldwide license.
ANAVI is planning to launch a crowdfunding marketing campaign for the TPM 2.0 add-on within the close to future, with events invited to enroll on Crowd Provide to be notified when the marketing campaign goes dwell.
