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Proposal for a Possum - Hardware

• The following outlines a proposal to advance Possum as a hardware design competition.

• This proposal assumes that the Software is set as CAcert's current software. This imposes a standard PC platform requirement on the hardware: OpenSSL, C, Linux or similar. Protocol and Interface may be varied at proposer's suggestion.

• The design space is the hardware and physical security module, including the hardware interface, as "required".

• See

  • Possum for main information

  • Technology/Laboratory/Software/Possum for the developed design scope of the Software

  • Technology/Laboratory/Hardware/Possum for the developed design scope of the Hardware

  • Brain/Study/Possum/Hardware for the ongoing project concept (this page)

Timeline

• Month	Activity	Comments
  0	Secure initial funding	need enough to guarantee a venue, accomodation, management
  0.5	Announcement	get the basics buzz going
  1	Call for submissions, with announcement of date M12 and country.	Submissions of hardware designs need a year or so. Align date with University calendar?
  2	Additional funding for travel grants	Need to bring in some groups
  3	Acceptance of early submissions	need to establish some size of event
  4	Additional funding for Jury	and prize if possible
  6	Jury Selection	need funding to fly in jury
  9	Final selection of submissions	need confirmation to team that they are "in" for flights & dates logistics
  12	Event.	1 day, aligned with other event of say 2 days, need 4 nights accomodation times how ever many people

Submission

• Submissions in application (by M9) should include:
  • - General Approach
• Submissions in the event should include:
  • - General Approach
  • - Threat model, being the list of threats that are analysed
  • - Security Model, being the design to deal with the threats accepted
  • - Implications on the rest of the system
  • - Strengths and Weaknesses ?
  • - Cost model. Estimate of how much it costs to build.
  • - Constructed example(s).

Event

• Day 1. A full day of presentations should be held before the aligned conference. In this day, each team gets X minutes to present and Y minutes of questioning. Criticisms from other teams welcomed (obligatory!).
• Day 2. Jury debates in private.
• Day 3. Jury presents and awards, as scheduled event in conference.

Jury

• Selected in private negotiations. Require a leader who can get the team to work together and bring out the results.

• Will require costs. Flights & accomodation.