[Cryptech Tech] goals / use cases

[Peter Gutmann]

Some Plonker <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>=?UTF-8?B?Sm9hY2hpbSBTdHLDtm1iZXJnc29u?= <joachim at secworks.se> writes:
>>I'm not worried cores in the SoC don't conform to FIPS 197 or FIPS 180-4 for
>>example.
>
>I am.  The DSA/ECDSA family (paranoia: thoughtfully provided to us by the NSA)
>is a perfect host for any manner of subliminal channels for leaking keys.

Oops, I was thinking FIPS 186, not FIPS 180.  180 (SHA) is fine, it's 186
(DSA/ECDSA) that are the problem.

Peter.