yasec's Yanartas project was accepted for funding by nlnet's NGI Zero Commons fund

Yanartas, a project in which Jan creates open source hardware designs for HSMs, was accepted for funding by nlnet's NGI Zero Commons fund. nlnet will provide support and funding for half a year of full-time open source development. The project results will be published here.

Yanartas is an open-source hardware security module (HSM). Yanartas is a secure storage for cryptographic secrets that is protected against advanced attackers including nation-state adversaries using an array of active tamper detection sensors. Unlike something like a smartcard or crypto wallet, the sensors of an HSM like Yanartas are always on and the attacks are detected the moment they happen.

The project includes developing the electronics, mechanical assembly, and software. The result of the project will be a set of open source hardware design files that will be shared publicly such that anyone can build their own device based on these designs.