Hardware Security Modules
Tamper-resistant hardware used to generate, protect, and use cryptographic keys for identity, payments, signing, and cloud services.
Core metadata
- ID: hardware_security_modules
- Era: Modern
- First known date: 1974 (decade)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
- Digital Signatures (digital_signatures)
- Integrated Circuits (Microchips) (integrated_circuits)
- Public Key Infrastructure (public_key_infrastructure)
Dependents
Fields
Field lanes
- Cybersecurity & Cryptography: Identity & Trust
Node sources
- Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations (NIST Computer Security Resource Center, 2020, official_agency) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 73%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
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| Public Key Infrastructure (public_key_infrastructure) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Public Key Infrastructure provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Integrated Circuits (Microchips) (integrated_circuits) | required | 82% | expert_inference | Integrated Circuits (Microchips) is modeled as a necessary component or method for this technology in the current graph. |
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| Digital Signatures (digital_signatures) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Digital Signatures provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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