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Re: [Cryptography] Kindle as crypto hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannes Frederic Sowa)
Wed Dec 4 14:24:13 2013
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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 19:58:00 +0100
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:39:27PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> What I really want from a crypto key management device is that it be
>
> * Small and light
> * Have processor and display capabilities
> * Be possible to control the operating system build completely
> * Be cheap enough to be a burner machine
>
> Which is how I started thinking about the Kindle. It is pretty much ideal
> in every respect, at least after it is jailbroken.
>
> And very unlikely that anyone has backdoored the existing stocks.
How do you want to tranfer your crypto bits? Do you want to use
network/wifi/serial or usb storage devices; IOW should the device be
offline or online?
I doubt the Kindle has USB-OTG so you would have to stick to wifi,
I guess.
Btw. does someone know cheap HSMs? The cheapest one I found was the
yubikey HSM and it doesn't have good support for x.509 key management.
Greetings,
Hannes
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