[Cryptech Tech] Alpha board block diagram v0.001

[Peter Gutmann]

=?UTF-8?B?0J/QsNCy0LXQuyDQqNCw0YLQvtCy?= <meisterpaul1 at yandex.ru> writes:

>Peter, what does "totally immune" to DPA mean?

What I meant was that it was immune to the attacks at the time (and probably
quite a few subsequent ones too).  In other words lots of other vendors had to
go out and re-design their hardware (or, more likely, ignore the problem,
because they were FIPS certified and thus secure by executive fiat), while
these guys didn't have to make any changes, not because they'd specifically
designeded their hardware to resist the attacks but because they'd just done
it properly in the first place and the resistance came for free.

Peter.