>From the Thales manual titled 'SRM for IBM zOS' document 1270A516-006 page
11 1.1 introduction

"Many applications, particularly in the banking area, require security to
be integrated into their design.  Generally, this security is best provided
by adding hardware based Host Security Modules (HSMs), as opposed to
software solutions."



Pete Eggebeen
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainframe Storage Management
Kohl's Corporation


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:04 AM, J R <[email protected]> wrote:

> Correct.  Hardware Security Module is the more generic term.
>
> Host Security Module is the Racal/Thales offering.  Many still use the
> term generically.
>
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> =
>  > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:41:54 -0400
> > From: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
> > To: [email protected]
> >
> > HARDWARE Security Module.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:09 AM, J R <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Host Security Module.
> > >  > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:52:04 -0500
> > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > >
> > > > Todd Arnold wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > no other HSMs -
> > > > > vendor's HSM architecture,
> > > >
> > > > What is HSM in this context?
> > > >
> > > > Of course, I searched before posting, but found over 270 ambiguous
> > > definitions...
> > > >
> > > > Groete / Greetings
> > > > Elardus Engelbrecht
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