Re: [cryptography] -currently available- crypto cards with onboard key storage

2011-10-29 Thread ianG
On 29/10/11 10:09 AM, coderman wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Thor Lancelot Simont...@panix.com wrote: I find myself needing a crypto card, preferably PCIe, with onboard key storage ... i too would like to know what other options are available for HSM + Accel in PCIe form

Re: [cryptography] -currently available- crypto cards with onboard key storage

2011-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:10:38PM +1100, ianG wrote: Is there any particular reason why PCI(e) is preferred as a hardware interface? Because that's the only thing server boards typically have. Plus, PCIe is much preferable to PCI in terms of throughput (not that makes a bottleneck for a

[cryptography] Cryptocounters for our PETs

2011-10-29 Thread Alfonso De Gregorio
I'm glad to announce Encounter, a software library aimed at providing a production-grade implementation of cryptographic counters and fostering further research on their constructions and applications. Cryptocounters have a number of applications ranging from privacy-preserving statistics

Re: [cryptography] -currently available- crypto cards with onboard key storage

2011-10-29 Thread Ben Laurie
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote: 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