Crypto hardware (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

Please reply to Mr. Crispin.

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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:28:08 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com>
To: cryptography at wasabisystems.com
Subject: Crypto hardware

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 at songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain



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