I find myself needing a crypto card, preferably PCIe, with onboard key storage. The application is PGP, so I really need hardware that can use keys stored onboard to do arbitrary RSA operations -- rather than a protocol accellerator which can use onboard keys only to do more complex operations that happen to include RSA signing or encryption as one step.
As far as I know, the only current products that do this are the IBM 4765 and the BCM586x line of chips. There were more sources once-upon-a-time of course -- nCipher and NetOctave/NBMK/etc. but those products seem to be gone now (and have obsolete PCI host interfaces, as well). I cannot actually find a card with a BCM586x on it, and there is a suspicious absence of pricing and availability information on those parts from the usual IC distributors' web sites as well. What, if anything, can I buy off-the-shelf in this space? I don't think a smartcard will work, since I need unattended operation within the chassis of a standard x86 rackmount server. Thor _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
