[Cryptech Tech] Possum and some good reading by Peter Gutmann

[Joachim Strömbergson]

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Aloha!

IanG in a discussion about the Cryptech TRNG pointed me to an older
project of his - Possum:

http://wiki.cacert.org/Possum

Judging by the project Wiki we are pretty close in terms of goals
(albeit Cryptech is more general in terms of application.)

On the web page there are two good PDFs well worth looking at. Both by
Peter Gutmann who (naturally) have thought a lot about Open Source HSMs:

"An Open-source Cryptographic Coprocessor" - Usenix 2000.
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/usenix00.pdf

"Hardware Encryption Modules" Book chapter
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/07_hardware.pdf

I know what I will be reading the next day (and night).

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Med vänlig hälsning, Yours

Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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