[Cryptography] HSMs or Intel SGX? Which is harder to hack?

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Mon Feb 20 16:24:52 EST 2017



On 02/19/2017 04:30 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx at webweaving.org> writes:
>  
>> While 10k is a bit much - it is pretty common in some industries to have in
>> the mid 1000’s in something called simbanks, poolGSM or simtrays; typically
>> 128 or 256 cards; often fitting by two per 1U enclosure.
> 
> There's a legitimate use for those things?  The only use I knew for them was
> for phone fraud.

They're a near-necessity in training modern neural networks.
How the heck are they useful for phone fraud?

				Bear
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean
it's useless.  -- Thomas Edison

When in doubt, use brute force. --Ken Thompson


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