Of portable security and encryption...

[GeeThree]

In an effort to boost the level of data security on portable computers,
cell phones and other gadgets, IBM Corp. is unveiling a method for
injecting encryption capabilities into the heart of the machines'
circuitry.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/04/10/ibm.chip.ap/index.html

They will stone me at the CH for posting technical stuff.Hopefully P
man won't do the same to me here...

Looks to me that Secure blue is an high volume SSL Internet server
which supports encryption in the central processing unit.
Their approach is to offload SSL set-up protocol activity that was
traditionally executed by Transaction Engines, to a scalable array of
SSL Handshake Protocol specific servers. This significantly reduces
utilization on the Transaction Engines since SSL session set-up is a
CPU intensive operation. Additionally, the actual encryption/decryption
processing is offloaded as well, to a dedicated and scalable array of
In-Line Encryption Engine(s). The In-Line Encryption Engine is
architected such that requests and responses flowing to and from the
Transaction Servers are in clear text. A benefit of this arrangement is
that Transaction Engines (as well as Web Accelerator Proxies) will
retain the ability to cache web objects, while firewalls will retain
the ability to perform packet level inspection of all traffic directed
to the transaction engines.

Let's see how this evolves.

[prope//er]

Very interesting post. It is very interesting to see IBM step into the
chip and encryption market. I have read that IBM is investing a lot
into nano technology and their chip technology is all set to unveil the
next generation of chip design.

This idea of embedding encryption into the chip has to be some kind of
a mix with software and hardware with mix and match capabilities. Why
would anyone settle for a chip with a single set of encryption
algorithms.

What this means now is that hackers would have to be extremely
sophisticated. Once again, within one week, with Ori Allon's Google
algorithm and now this leads me to believe that people who are serious
about tech should stick to tech and go into specialization. We haven't
seen nothing yet.

The next tech wave is just around the corner.

[prope//er]

"We haven't seen nothing yet." should be "We have seen nothing yet. "

got-to-run
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