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HSM Requirements

Requirements for the Cryptech Alpha System. Derived from Use Cases (see below). There are also utility, internal requirements (again, see below).

Capacity

Per key storage requirements

In addition to the actual key data, each key requires

  • Key type – 4 bytes
  • Key identifier – 4 bytes
  • Key flags, e.g. exportable – 8 …

Welcome to the Cryptech Project

Overview

Recent revelations have called into question the integrity of some of the implementations of basic cryptographic functions and devices used to secure communications on the Internet. There are serious questions about algorithms and about implementations of those algorithms in software and particularly hardware. The goal of the CrypTech project …

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