[Cryptography] HSMs or Intel SGX? Which is harder to hack?
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Wed Feb 22 16:29:06 EST 2017
* Peter Gutmann:
> 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.
Some regulators require that all tokens are personalized and
run-of-the-mill smartcards. If you have business processes that
require mass-signing, then you need such smartcard farms.
But I think there's lately been a general trend away from requiring
signatures with personalized smartcards for mass-market transactions.
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