International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2025

BASTION:

A Framework for Secure Third-Party IP Integration in NoC-based SoC Platforms


License

                        ################################
                        # ESP and Third Party Licenses #
                        ################################

 The Bastion repository is an extension of the ESP project. The ESP repository includes original source code, as well as 3rd party software and software derived from 3rd party source code.

  1. Bastion source code is governed by the Apache License 2.0. 

      - Copyright (c) 2023-2025 University of California San Diego, Kastner Research Group

  2. The ESP original source code is governed by the Apache License 2.0.
     Original ESP source files are tagged with the SPDX-License Identifier Apache-2.0
     and report the following copyright notice.

       - Copyright (c) 2011-2021 Columbia University, System Level Design Group


  2. All source files from GRLIB and derived source files that include portions
     of code from GRLIB are governed by the GNU General Public License as
     published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
     or any later version. GRLIB source files and derived source files preserve
     the original license header and report at least one of the following
     copyright notices, depending on the release date.

       -  Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008, Gaisler Research
       -  Copyright (C) 2008 - 2014, Aeroflex Gaisler
       -  Copyright (C) 2015 - 2016, Cobham Gaisler


  3. The parametrizable asynchronous FIFO implementation in VHDL from the
     project 'Generic RAMs and FIFOs collection' at CERN is governed by the GNU
     Lesser General Public License version 3.0. The source file is tagged with
     the SPDX-License Identifier LGPL-3.0-only and includes the original header
     from CERN and the following copyright notice.

       - Copyright (c) 2011 CERN


   4. All source files released in Git submodules are governed by their
      respective license(s) in accordance with the credits and license files
      released in each linked repository.


 A copy of all relevant license files is available in the folder licenses.