New Nitrokey HSM 2 with RSA-4096, ECC-521, AES-256
We are excited to announce the long awaited Nitrokey HSM 2. Finally it supports highly secure cryptography with RSA-4096, ECC-521, AES-256, and SHA-512. Supported elliptic curves are: SECG / NIST P-192, P-256, P-521; Bitcoin Koblitz curve secp192k1, secp256k1, secp521k1; Brainpool 192-512. The storage capacity has been increased significantly to store 300x ECC/AES-256 keys, 150x ECC-521 keys, 19x RSA-4096 keys, or 38x RSA-2048 keys.
What Nitrokey HSM 2 is used for:
- Operating PKI and CA
- Fulfilling compliance requirements (e.g. PCI DSS)
- Internet of Things (IoT) and protecting your own products
- Securely administrating servers with SSH
- Encrypting emails
Have you read about the crypto exchange CEO who died and took company's only key to $137 million with him? Nitrokey HSM's m-of-n threshold scheme prevents such cases while protecting keys against bad key administrators at the same time. Stop putting your valuable keys at risk and order your Nitrokey HSM 2.
Why didn't we release Nitrokey HSM 2 earlier?
The cryptographic computation is not implemented in software but in the embedded smart card. We had to wait for the vendor NXP to release a new chip (JavaCard) supporting these algorithms. This is also the reason why Curve25519 isn’t supported by Nitrokey HSM but by Nitrokey Start.
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