[Cryptech Tech] Working memory on HSM for decrypted private key components?

[Peter Stuge]

Rob Austein wrote:
> Where do we place the decrypted private key components?

If the FPGA is going to use them then it must be able to access them
and store them internally.


> At one point I was hearing muttering about private keys never leaving
> the FPGA,

Yes - that sounds familiar to me too!


> implying that we'll have some magic storage core implemented
> in the FPGA and that keys will (somehow) be transformed from their
> encrypted form into the forms (sometimes a bit odd) needed by the
> various crypto cores.

Maybe the MKM can take care of all odd transformations?


> so it's more of an intention than something we can evaluate, much less use.

I guess so. :\


> At the moment, what I have is software and conventional memory, and
> unless somebody tells me otherwise, I assume that's what we're to be
> using for the bridge board implementation.  Are we expecting to do
> better than this on the Alpha board?

Does it depend on funding and/or some kind of deadlines?


//Peter