Todd Arnold wrote: IBM had three channel-attached crypto units for the mainframes.
>1977 - IBM 3845 DES encryption unit >1979 - IBM 3848 DES encryption unit - faster than the 3845, and added >Triple-DES > (yes, IBM already had Triple-DES in its products in 1979!) >1989 - IBM Transaction Security System (TSS) which included the 4753. The >4753 was the first product to offer the CCA architecture, and it is the >ancestor of all of the other crypto processors such as the Crypto Express >cards. Way cool. Just asking: what was this in response to? You didn't quote anything, so it's not clear. Anyone of you packrats have any of these books lying around? G321-5068 CRYPTOGRAPHY ARCHITECTURE FOR INFORMATION SECURITY (13pp, journal reprint, no date) GA21-2865 IBM 3845 DATA ENCRYPTION DEVICE, IBM 3846 DATA ENCRYPTION DEVICE, GENERAL INFORMATION (44pp, 10/1977) GA21-2866 IBM 3845 DATA ENCRYPTION DEVICE, PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION (can't find date or page count; seems to have gotten to at least a -2) GA21-2899 IBM 3846 DATA ENCRYPTION DEVICE, PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION (can't find date or page count) GC28-0942 IBM 3848 OS/VS1 AND OS/VS2 MVS CRYPTOGRAPHIC UNIT PRODUCT DESCRIPTION, GENERAL INFORMATION (48pp, 10/1977; seems to have gotten up to at least a -3, July 1983) GC22-9062 DATA SECURITY THROUGH CRYPTOGRAPHY (40pp, 10/1977) GC22-9063 IBM CRYPTOGRAPHIC SUBSYSTEM CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES (48pp, 10/1977) This is just a curiosity thing, no real value. I'm guessing these won't work on a zEC12 anyway :) -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com<mailto:p...@voltage.com> Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.com<http://www.voltage.com/> (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568-6662 (cell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
