[cabfpub] Why HSMs?

Ryan Sleevi sleevi at google.com
Sat Mar 25 19:50:00 UTC 2017


On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:00 PM, philliph--- via Public <public at cabforum.org
> wrote:

> Why we have HSMs likely comes down to ‘its the way the NSA did it’.
>

Are you stating you believe this is the only reason? It is unclear.


>
> I am certain we want to have them and can come up with a number of reasons
> to justify the rather modest cost compared to everything else we do to run
> a CA. But we should probably understand the reasons in more detail.
>

Yes, I believe that was the question Peter was asking, and which we should
be discussing.
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