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Re: Crypto hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Jul 12 12:06:01 2001
To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 11 Jul 2001 09:02:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: Kent Crispin's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:28:08 -0700"
Message-ID: <sjmzoabehzs.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Are you talking about the BBN/GTE SafeKeyPer (I may have mis-spelled
that)? I don't know if they are still on the market -- they were
priced Really High.
-derek
Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> writes:
> 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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