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Crypto hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Tue Jul 10 18:51:18 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:28:08 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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A couple of years ago at the RSA conference one of the vendors was
exhibiting a tamperproof that would keep a secret key and perform
encryptions/signatures using the key. Since the key never left the
box, in theory security reduced to physical security around the box.
The intended use of the box was as a master for a CA. I thought the
vendor was GTE, but I didn't find anything definitive on their site.
Does this description trigger any recollection? Are there similar
devices on the market from other sources?
--
Kent Crispin "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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