[Cryptech Core] Automatic key zeroisation of keys in keywrap

Joachim Strömbergson joachim at assured.se
Fri Dec 7 15:01:22 UTC 2018


Aloha!

On 2018-12-07 15:59, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
>> The question is then what a proper lower bound is? Reset back to timeout
>> is the easiest since it doesn't add another magic number. But would that
>> be ok?
> 
> I think that's OK.

Cool.


> Is it easy to also add an explicit wipe, for when SW knows that a key
> is no longer needed?

Not hard at all. Simply add a new control bit and when it is pulled
automatically trigger the current zeroisation operation. Good idea. Thanks!

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Joachim Strömbergson
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