[Cryptech Tech] Disassembly, and production of HSMs

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Fri Nov 6 07:56:39 UTC 2020


Joachim Strömbergson <joachim at assured.se> writes:

>Was pointed to a very interesting paper that describes how IBM manufactures
>FIPS Level 4, PCIe based HSMs. Quite a lot of resin and glue required.

Interesting that this paper seems to completely erase from history the IBM
4758, which was more or less the same thing done twenty years earlier.  I
wonder what the politics behind that was?

Peter.




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