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A lot of software stacks are still only optimised for ARM. TrustZone is also far more mature and supported than the RISC-V equivalents.

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What would you consider the “RISC-V equivalent” of TrustZone? Last time I was curious I didn’t find anything.

(FWIW I agree with the other commenter that these ""security"" features are useless, and feel to me more like check-box compliance than anything else (Why does TrustZone work with function calls? What’s wrong with IPC! Also, what’s wrong with privileged mode?). Just seems like a bit of a waste of silicon really.)

There are some examples listed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment

MultiZone, OpenMZ, Keystone, maybe Penglai or ProvenCore, I can't really keep up. That answer goes a long way to explaining the appeal of TrustZone.

Is TrustZone really all that useful? I haven't had a need for anything like it myself!

esp-c6 module parts are like $2-3 and already have an fcc cert, low power, and support all the same protocols I believe. Are nrf54 modules really that cheap? Can I program them natively with Rust yet?

If you care at all about security, then yes, it is tremendously useful.

Care about security in what way? The radio and protocols are all written in C still with the endless CVEs that bring about aren’t they?

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