Metadata Distribution Subcommittee of TAC

[John Krienke <>]

Great to hear. We will schedule some time with Leif on the other side of our 
phase 2 recommendations. I'm glad you were able to touch base with him.  

john.


On Jan 12, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Ian Young 
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> On 9 Jan 2014, at 21:13, Joe St Sauver 
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>> FWIW, I'd also note that if HSMs are going to be part of the equation, we 
>> have the ability to offer the SafeNet LUNA HSMs through the multifactor 
>> program agreement with SafeNet, but not at much of a discount from list 
>> prices.
> 
> Just in passing, I'd note that Leif's investigations in this area ended up 
> with them buying a pair of the virtualisable Luna boxes, which he's hoping 
> will be the only HSMs they will need to buy until technology moves on a 
> step. I believe they bought pretty beefy versions, because they plan to use 
> them for all sorts of things, some of which might be doing pretty high 
> frequency private key operations.
> 
> While talking to Leif about this on Friday, I also mentioned to him that we 
> have been having this discussion and that I was hoping that he might be 
> amenable to giving us a brain dump of his thought processes at some stage. 
> He seemed surprisingly OK with that idea.
> 
>       -- Ian
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