Hi All,
You may get SAMs from Fortress with RSA key generation capability on board.
Those cards have very good random number generation on board as seed for
their key generation.
SAMs are packed as SIM cards for GSM or in any other form common in the
industry.
For extra security there are some that package the secure silicon in big
"black box", however with the Public Key Devices the extra security deserve
another consideration.
Ran Granot
Fortress U&T.
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From: Eric Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: MUSCLE information
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:40:03AM +0100, Josep Maria Carné Barnaus wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am looking for information about the process of generating keys - the
> > private and the public key - in a smartcard. Someone told me that some
types
> > of smartcards needed a Security Access Module. Can anyone confirm this?.
> > Is absolutely necesary use this module to create the pair of keys?. In
some
> > smartcards I think that it´s possible to create without this module.
> > Particulary I am interested in Schumlberger, Bull, GyD, Gemplus
>
>
> The SAM I have heard of is a tamper-resistant (i.e. FIPS 140 or ITSEC)
> box which goes into ATMs. I'm not sure what a SAM for a smartcard
means...
> maybe a box which is a reader and which generates the key to put it
> on the card?
>
> A number of higher-end smartcards have key generation facilities.
> One problem is that key generation for RSA requires a good source
> of random numbers, and I have heard from some researchers that smartcard
> RNGs are often poor. Hardware RNGs are wierd and often require a lot
> of power (i.e. for free-running ring oscilators) making them difficult to
> include on a space and power limited smartcard.
>
> I beleive that Gemplus GPK series cards can generate RSA keys.
>
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