<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear Cryptech Team,<br><br></div>I learned about your initiative today and I am very glad that my deapest wish comes true.<br><br></div>My personal background: HSM Engineering since 1987 (Research, Development, Application Integration).<br>
<br></div>My current team is focussing on Cryptoserver-Appliances for various application scenarios since 1992.<br><br></div><div>Is it still possible to contribute and if yes, in which areas ?<br></div><div><div><div><div>
<div><div><div><div><br></div><div>What is the reason, that TDES is not being supported ?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Will Customer Extension of firmware be supported ?<br><br></div><div>Is support in Key-Wrapping still required ?<br>
<br></div><div>Background: we are 3rd Party Developer for <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/security/cryptocards/">IBM CCA UDX</a> since 1997. <br>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.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>My field of research and product design:<br><br></div><div>- Trusted Enterprise Key Managment (since 1992)<br></div><div>- Trusted Web-Backends using HSM (since 1993)<br></div><div>- Trusted IAM infrastructures based on HSM (since 2003)<br>
</div><div>- Trusted Mail Gateways based on HSM (since 2006)<br></div><div>- Trusted PIN Processing in banking transaction systems (since 1994) <br></div><div>- Migration from TDES based PIN Processing to AES (since 2013)<br>
</div><div>- Trusted OpenSSL Integration using IBM 4764 HSM (since 2006)<br></div><div>- Trusted SmartCard preprocessing using HSM (since 1997)<br><br></div><div>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)<br>
</div><div><br><br><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><p><font color="#000099" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><i><b>Thomas Brandtstaetter</b></i></font><br><b><i><font color="#000099" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Vogelsangstr. 17<br>
</font></i></b><font color="#000099"><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><i><b>62444 Oberboihingen<br></b></i></font></font><font color="#000099" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><i><b>Mobil: 0174-3310252</b></i></font><br>
<font color="#000099" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><i><b>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:thomas.brandtstaetter@googlemail.com" target="_blank">thomas.brandtstaetter@googlemail.com</a></b></i></font></p>
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