From the press realease:
“lowRISC C.I.C., the open-silicon ecosystem organization, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC, one of Europe’s leading institutions for cybersecurity research, today announced that Fraunhofer has officially joined the OpenTitan® project as a key security testing partner. By bringing its world-renowned hardware evaluation expertise to the world’s first open-source silicon Root of Trust (RoT), Fraunhofer will play a critical role in independently validating the project’s resilience against advanced physical and logical attacks. […]
As a security testing partner, Fraunhofer will collaborate with the OpenTitan coalition to evaluate the physical resilience of the project’s silicon designs, such as the Earl Grey top level. By analyzing and testing the hardware architecture before and after tape-out, Fraunhofer will help the community refine its countermeasures, harden its cryptographic accelerators (including early integration of post-quantum cryptography), and ensure the design meets the highest evaluation assurance levels. […]”