More and more compute workloads are migrating from the cloud to the edge, where they can be executed in closer proximity to sensor devices, avoiding expensive backhaul of data volumes to the cloud. Developers are used to deploying workloads with cloud-native tools and technologies, where APIs are portable and decoupled from physical platform details. But the threat landscape of edge computing is different from that of the cloud. It demands hardware security protection for private assets such as keys. A variety of hardware security solutions exist in the highly-diverse ecosystem of the edge. Using these requires knowledge of specialised APIs, which can be difficult to consume, and are not always portable. Parsec creates abstractions for hardware security, providing interfaces that are portable, and creating ergonomic developer experiences in multiple programming languages.

This year, Parsec recipes are being added to the meta-security Yocto layer, making it possible for developers and systems integrators to gain the advantages of Parsec in their Yocto-based deployments.

In this talk, we present a high-level overview of the Parsec project. We will describe its architecture and talk about the project status and roadmap. We will also talk about our experiences of integrating this Rust-based security project into the meta-security layer.