Crypto hardware

[Derek Atkins]

Are you talking about the BBN/GTE SafeKeyPer (I may have mis-spelled
that)?  I don't know if they are still on the market -- they were
priced Really High.

-derek

Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com> writes:

> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> kent at songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Cryptography Mailing List
> Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at wasabisystems.com

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available



---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at wasabisystems.com