Full Disclosure: Re: About HSM

[T Biehn <tbiehn () gmail com>]

Hi Klaw,
Looking to jump on the PIN Cracking money train are we?

-Travis

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Thiago Musa <klawiq () gmail com> wrote:
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> First of all sorry for my poor English. I’ve been working with security for
> many years now, but I never had any experience with HSM (hardware security
> model) before. Since I started to look the available solutions on the
> market, I came up with two different types: PKI HSM and EFT (or EMV) HSM.
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> I’m quite ok with the functionalities of the first one, but what I can’t
> find more (good) information is about the second type and the real
> differences between their crypto algorithms (I mean what exactly are the
> differences).  I’m also in a big doubt about the products from Safenet and
> Thales, and why they have such a big difference in their prices?
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> I googled a lot searching for vendor-independent information on HSM, but
> couldn’t find any good stuff.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> -klaw
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