On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:12 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 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
Hi Thor, For a past project, I've been engineering a cryptographic appliance running with Bull TrustWay CC2000 http://support.bull.com/ols/product/security/trustway/c2000/cc2000.html It is a full-length PCI with on-board key storage. Cheers, -- alfonso blogs at http://Plaintext.crypto.lo.gy tweets @secYOUre _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
