Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
No clue why nCipher’s docs don’t tell you how to actually install or upgrade the software they accompany, but they don’t. I have an existing article on installing the Security Continue Reading…
This is just taken from nCipher postings, but I like to have it around for personal reference: The table below correlates each nShield Model with its corresponding Speed Index. Model Continue Reading…
Recently had a need to demonstrate for an auditor that a given key encryption key in a Thales HSM environment was RSA and was 4096-bits. The correct command to do Continue Reading…
Recently had a Thales nShield Connect 6000 fail. Replacing them is fairly easy, but there are a large number of steps, so figured I’d write them out here in case Continue Reading…
Here’s my play by play for installing a Thales nShield Connect network-based HSM into a CentOS linux environment: # echo ‘PATH=$PATH:/opt/nfast/bin’ > /etc/profile.d/nfast.sh # exec bash mount -o loop /root/SecWorld-linux64-user-12.10.01.iso Continue Reading…