nCipher netHSM

[R. A. Hettinga]

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Status:  U
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
Subject: Re: nCipher netHSM
From: Ronald Perez <ronpz at us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:32:48 -0400


This looks like new packaging of an old/previously-announced product.

The NIST FIPS 140 site (http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/140-1/1401val2003.htm) does not list this device as having undergone any FIPS validation. And from the pictures and specs, it looks like what they did was to put one of their FIPS validated PCI cards into a 1U rack-mount format box -- along with one or two 10/100 Ethernet connections, an LCD display, keyboard input, and some other buttons and knobs (all of which have not gone through a FIPS validation no doubt).

-Ron

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