[Cryptech Tech] Teardown of an IBM 4758 HSM

[Warren Kumari]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Joachim Strömbergson
<joachim at secworks.se> wrote:
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> Aloha!
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> If you want to see what a PCIe connected HSM really looks inside there
> are a set of images from a teardown on an IBM 4758 board on Flickr:
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingspores/sets/72157628094589706/detail/

Very, very cool...

W

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> Potting and Gore mesh detection.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_4758
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> Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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-- 
I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad
idea in the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair
of pants.
   ---maf