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duskwuffyesterday at 11:18 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Real shame since cortex has a admin TrustZone processor that is licensed to special interests only.

This is substantially inaccurate.

1) Not all ARM Cortex series CPUs have TrustZone. It is absent on many Cortex-M microcontrollers, for example.

2) TrustZone is an operating mode of the CPU, not an "admin processor". Depending on the part, it is often made accessible to developers. (Whether that includes third-party software developers is, of course, up to the device manufacturer.)

For more information, see:

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100690/0200/ARM-Trus...