pci hardware for secure crypto storage (OpenSSL/OpenBSD)

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Tue Sep 14 18:25:15 EDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:31:11AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for (cheap, PCI/USB) hardware to store secrets (private
> key) and support crypto primitives (signing, cert generation). It
> doesn't have to be fast, but to support loading/copying of secrets
> in physically secure environments, and not generate nonextractable
> secret onboard. Environment is OpenBSD/Linux/OpenSSL/gpg.

Since your environment includes GPG, then I think the OpenPGP
smartcard meets pretty well what you are requesting.  Combine it it
with a USB smartcard reader, and the card becomes USB, too ;)

http://www.silicon-trust.com/pdf/secure_8/48_ppc.pdf
http://www.g10code.de/p-card.html

David

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