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How do these devices differ from a £50 Cryptostick https://www.crypto-stick.com/ https://www.crypto-stick.com/ or a £10 OpenPGP SmartCard? http://g10code.com/p-

• rdl 14y ago
  Security, performance, and functionality/features. They're generally FIPS 140-2 level 3 (and a couple are 4), so protected against physical and logical attacks. Generally they have modexp accelerators and have performance equivalent to a main CPU (they used to be way faster than CPUs...). Mainly, they have tools for multi-party key management, crypto fill, reset, etc. Some of which can work remotely/over the network, which is the main weakness of the low end smartcard in this environment.