PART II
DEVICE SECURITY BUILDING BLOCKS
If you want to engineer a car, you obviously need an engine and body, some tires and seats, and probably at least one window. If you set your sights on engineering a secure device, you also want to have some essential building blocks.
Modern security would not be possible without a reliable source of random numbers and cryptographic operations that are optimized for the processors of your choice. Further, since many crypto algorithms rely on secrets, a decent storage option for this confidential data is required. Last but not least, unique and secure device identities in combination with secure communication channels are mandatory for every connected device. Since the devil is in the details for all these ...
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