On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, coderman wrote:
of course, this could be because companies like Sun charge $9,999 for an HSM/accelerator that is at best a reasonable cost at $1,499...
If you mean the SCA 6000, those were $1600 at Sun. When Oracle bought them they just bumped it to $10k. On ebay you can see listings right now for $300-$750 for used ones, with the familiar traces of heated up plastic :) And yes, no one should use them as accelerator. They only have an HSM function at this point. And in practise, they've turned out to be a bit troubled with overheating and crashing linux drivers. Paul _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
