At 7:21 PM -0500 on 3/20/02, Roop Mukherjee wrote:
> I am searching for some citable references about secure peripheral cards. > Contrary to what I had imagined when I had started searching, I found very > little. I am looking to see what are the peripherals that have > cryptographic capabilities and what are thier capabilities? > > The Embassy (www.wave.com) thing seems like a single secure system in > itself, which can run programs and do everything from secure boot to > secure IO. So I imagine that all of this stuff will not be put in the > peripherals. Also in the same vein US patent 6,314,409 talk of a secure > system but in more abstract terms. > > Intel's audio players and sigmatels auddio _decoders_ (can be a > comeplte device or a peripheral according to the brochure) seems to calim > Microsoft's DRM compatibility. > > I would appreciate some better references. I think you should talk to NCipher about this stuff. As far as I can tell, Nicko's hardware development people have the best handle on secure boxes to store keys in, cryptographic accelerator peripherals, and so on. They're very smart, very creative, and have a giant-killer attitude, which is handy in a market dominated by very big companies who mostly do other things besides crypto for a living. No financial interest in NCipher, I've always been impressed with Nicko van Someren, Ian Harvey, and their associates. <http://www.ncipher.com/> Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]