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Re: Crypto hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (em@bigfoot.com)
Thu Jul 12 11:59:49 2001
To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:54:46 +0800 (HKT)
From: em@bigfoot.com
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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Quoting Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>:
> 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?
Yes, several. Have a look at http://www.kegel.com/ssl/hw.html . The page is
about accelerators, but it also contains links to tamperproof units (even when
they are actually slower than a common Pentium CPU).
Enzo
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