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Re: full-disk subversion standards released

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren J Moffat)
Fri May 1 15:31:11 2009

Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 13:48:43 +0100
From: Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM>
In-reply-to: <20090316183110.GA942@panix.com>
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
Cc: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, cryptography@metzdowd.com

Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> To the extent of my knowledge there are currently _no_ generally
> available, general-purpose crypto accellerator chip-level products with
> onboard key storage or key wrapping support, with the exception of parts
> first sold more than 5 years ago and being shipped now from old stock.

CA-6000 supports on board key storage and key wrapping.  It even 
supports the NIST AES Keywrap algorithm.

This card is certainly newer than 5 years old, in fact when we first 
released it we had some deployment issues because we had created a PCIe 
only card and several customers wanted to put on in machines that didn't 
have PCIe capability.

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Darren J Moffat


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