Draft of NLnet Grant Announcement

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Sorry I took so long, here's the draft announcement, which I'm planning on posting in our Announcements category. Feedback appreciated!

Title: Libre-Chip Awarded Grant from NLnet to Prove Lack of Spectre Vulnerabilities Without Compromising CPU Performance

Modern computers suffer from a constant stream of new speculative-execution security flaws (Spectre-style bugs). To address this major category of flaws, the Libre-chip team is working towards building a high-performance computer processor (CPU) with speculative execution and working on a mathematical proof that it doesn't suffer from any speculative-execution data leaks, thereby demonstrating that this major category of flaws can be eliminated without crippling the computer's performance.

Libre-Chip has been awarded a € 50000 grant from NLnet to build a fully Libre/Open-source initial proof-of-concept CPU as well as attempting to mathematically prove that that CPU doesn't have any speculative-execution security flaws.

Libre-Chip is a project for creating Free/Libre computer chips, such as CPUs/GPUs and their supporting software.

The Libre-chip team.

Links:

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I also updated the website somewhat: Comparing b87072562e..67f6c5c6f1 - libre-chip/website - Libre-Chip.org

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Some ideas:

  • Replace "we are working..." with "the Libre-chip team is working..."
  • Then, link "the Libre-chip team" to either an "about us" page (if we choose to add one), or to the existing Relevant Previous Involvement section on the proposal.
  • Also include the project statement, to give context: "Libre-Chip is a project for creating Free/Libre computer chips, such as CPUs/GPUs and their supporting software." (taken from the main page).
  • Finish by signing as "The Libre-chip team"
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Ok, I applied all your suggestions, as well as some edits my mom suggested. Does it look good enough to post and publicize now?

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Indeed, looks good to me.

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ok, I just finished updating the server to the latest software and will post the announcement

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Wasn’t sure where to post this, but I wanted to congratulate you both on the progress!

Glad to see such a well laid out plan, will be interesting how the project develops.

Sorry I haven’t participated much, it’s been a very busy year.

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