Crypto hardware

em at bigfoot.com em at bigfoot.com
Tue Jul 10 21:54:46 EDT 2001


Quoting Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com>:

> A couple of years ago at the RSA conference one of the vendors was 
> exhibiting a tamperproof that would keep a secret key and perform 
> encryptions/signatures using the key.  Since the key never left the 
> box, in theory security reduced to physical security around the box.  
> The intended use of the box was as a master for a CA.  I thought the 
> vendor was GTE, but I didn't find anything definitive on their site.
> 
> Does this description trigger any recollection?  Are there similar 
> devices on the market from other sources?

Yes, several. Have a look at http://www.kegel.com/ssl/hw.html . The page is 
about accelerators, but it also contains links to tamperproof units (even when 
they are actually slower than a common Pentium CPU).

Enzo





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