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Why is this so expensive? Like almost the price of an upper middle class GPU or a modern gaming console (PS5 or XBox or latest SteamDeck) so what's so expensive
by wg0 3y ago
Why is this so expensive? Like almost the price of an upper middle class GPU or a modern gaming console (PS5 or XBox or latest SteamDeck) so what's so expensive inside it to justify that much of a price?
Or it's just enormous profit seeking?
- marcus0x62 3y agoIt's "expensive"[0] because the product being linked to is completely different than a hardware security token used to store a credential like an ssh key. Yubikeys that can store an ssh key are like $50. 0 - the Yubi HSM is 1-2 orders of magnitude less expensive than competing HSM products.
- wg0 3y agoBut even then what makes them expensive? Components?
- marcus0x62 3y agoComponents, development cost, a small market, and profiteering. You’re talking about a hardened appliance meant to store encryption keys, sign transactions with those keys, and resist disclosure of the keys even if an attacker physically steals the device and, for instance, tries to retrieve the keys from something like an xray analysis of the chip. That’s the theory. In practice these things have been…Less than perfect. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/hacking_hardwar.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/hacking_hardw...