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It'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. Yubi
by marcus0x62 3y ago
It'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...