Jan Belohoubek
Jan Bělohoubek is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague, and the Security Team Lead at Tropic Square s.r.o.
His professional and research focus is on the attack resistance of CMOS circuits, including side-channel-resistant design, verification of hardware side-channel attack countermeasures, and the implementation of robust security primitives. He is also passionate about developing open-source tools for hardware design and verification.
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The prevailing approach in today's chip design is closed-source. This approach was recently challenged by the broader open-hardware movement, where Tropic Square is positioned as the first supplier of an open-architecture, auditable, secure element chip available on the market - TROPIC01.
In the IC industry, both trust and security are challenging. Chips developed under the closed-source paradigm are black boxes. Despite design secrecy, cybercrime can exploit undocumented features and vulnerabilities. Cryptographers, security experts, and academia demand transparency and auditability to move beyond blind trust. Opening the design at least to the level that enables auditability leads to verifiable Security by Design and strengthens trust.
With our partners across academia and independent labs, we delivered a batch of security validation reports. By this approach we are trying to set-up a new baseline showcasing that an open security validation model is viable in the challenging IC design domain.