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Are there any hardware HSMs that can host/run custom applications using the HSM processor(s) within the hardened security boundary?
It seems that the majority of commercially available hardware HSMs are only designed to allow authenticated users to generate, store, and use cryptographic keys with various cryptographic algorithms ...
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EMV Security? How is it possible that it's secure?
I recently read some articles on EMV and the various ways in which it has been improved over the years. I then read this which shows that it has been possible for some time to exploit EMV via a man ...
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Do Flash memory (SSD) architecture impacts encryption techniques?
I'm working on encryption techniques on SSD's and my question is: does the erase before write architecture of SSD's has anything to do with the encryption technique?
What are the problems I might ...
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Tool or Process to check for AES-NI support on processor?
In another question: How to choose a stream cipher, Thomas' answer mentioned the AES-NI instruction set, which piqued my curiousity.
Is there a tool or process available out there to check whether ...
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What is the benefit with using encrypted RAM Memory?
I sometimes hear that encryption is used for the RAM Memory, but I don't really understand why this is needed.
Why is RAM Memory needed to be encrypted? and is this done by the hardware, the ...
