Zero of 773 FIPS 140-3 certificates are validated at Level 4

4 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by meehow

3 Comments

rurban

14 minutes ago

Side-channel ignorance: none of the SW solutions are properly zeroing the data. Side-channels can still read them. SW vendors refuse to do that because of performance. Clearing the caches is too expensive.

throwaway81523

2 hours ago

All the really high end stuff is in financial data centers anyway, surrounded by TV cameras 24/7. Tamper reactance in the HSM itself is cool and everything but the surrounding security handles a lot of what the HSM is made to do.