On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:12AM +0100, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: | (possible duplicate message) | | What technology is available to create a 2048-bit RSA key pair so that: | | 1 - the randomness comes from quantum noise | | 2 - no one knows the secret part, | | 3 - The secret part is kept in the "box" and it is safe as long as the box is physically secured (expense of securing the box is a don't care). | | 4 - "box" can do high-speed signing (say, 0.1 mS per signature) over some kind of network interface | | 5 - you can reasonably convince certain people (that stand to lose a lot and have huge resources) in 1, 2, 3 and 4. | | 6 - The operation budget is around $1m (maintenance not included). | | 7 - attacker's budget is around $100m | | 8 - the key must never be destroyed, so backup is essential. | | In other words, convincing translation of a crypto problem into physical security problem. | | | It looks like the key gets created on the same box(es) on which it | is stored, which all interested parties inspected to any desireable | level. Once everyone is comfortable the button gets pressed to | create/distribute the key, and then you put goons with AKs around the | boxes and pray that no one fucked with the microprocessor ... this may | mean buying the components at random. Look at NCipher, and host in the Bunker. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume