At 9:16 AM -0400 4/27/09, Joe Abley wrote: >On 27-Apr-2009, at 09:05, Edward Lewis wrote: > >>Perhaps we should avoid the RFC 5513 "HSM" and just spell it out - a >>(cryptographic) hardware support module. > >Hardware Security Module is the more usual expanded form, I think?
It is indeed. "hardware support module" sounds like a crypto accelerator chip, which has a completely different function, one that doesn't include holding private keys. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
