pci hardware for secure crypto storage (OpenSSL/OpenBSD)

Ian Grigg iang at systemics.com
Wed Sep 15 11:30:54 EDT 2004


There is a device that is similar to those characteristics:

http://woudt.nl/epass-pgp/
http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000201.html

iang

David Shaw wrote:
> 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

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