[Cryptech Core] HSM - OpenSource Development

[Thomas Brandtstaetter]

Dear Cryptech Team,

I learned about your initiative today and I am very glad that my deapest
wish comes true.

My personal background: HSM Engineering since 1987 (Research, Development,
Application Integration).

My current team is focussing on Cryptoserver-Appliances for various
application scenarios since 1992.

Is it still possible to contribute and if yes, in which areas ?

What is the reason, that TDES is not being supported ?

Will Customer Extension of firmware be supported ?

Is support in Key-Wrapping still required ?

Background: we are 3rd Party Developer for IBM CCA
UDX<http://www-03.ibm.com/security/cryptocards/>since 1997.
A lot of application scenarios only make sense, if function complexes can
be bundled inside an HSM, thus requiring some kind of User Defined
Extension mechanism.

My field of research and product design:

- Trusted Enterprise Key Managment (since 1992)
- Trusted Web-Backends using HSM (since 1993)
- Trusted IAM infrastructures based on HSM (since 2003)
- Trusted Mail Gateways based on HSM (since 2006)
- Trusted PIN Processing in banking transaction systems (since 1994)
- Migration from TDES based PIN Processing to AES (since 2013)
- Trusted OpenSSL Integration using IBM 4764 HSM (since 2006)
- Trusted SmartCard preprocessing using HSM (since 1997)

1987-1992 IBM R&D Financial Systems Development - Applied Crypto based on
HSM: Research and Customer Consultancy; Assignments at IBM Crypto Lab in
Charlotte, N.C., USA and IBM Cryptographic Competence Center in Copenhagen,
Denmark; various mentors: Carl Mayer (DES Developer Team), Todd Arnold (IBM
HSM firmware concepts, IBM  Personal Security Card)



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*Thomas Brandtstaetter*

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