Cryptographic Accelerators, Coprocessors, HSMs

• AEP HSM and accelerator: AEP SecureWare A-Gate, Keyper, Net and Runner series.
• Broadcom cryptographic accelerators chips, BCM and CryptoNetX series.
• Eracom Protect Host and Protect Server HSMs.
  
• HiFn crypto accelerators chips.
• HP/Atalla AXL series PCI accelerators.
• IBM 4758 PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor (PCICC), PCIxCC, e-business PCI Cryptographic Accelerator (PCICA),  CP Assist for Cryptogrpahic Function (CPACF) and the Cryptographic Coprocessor Facility (CCF).  What a set of acronyms!
• Ingrian DataSecure/SSL Platorm.
• NCipher nShield, netHSM, payShield, nForce and nFast.
• NetOctave crypo accelerators, NSPxxxxy-SSL/IPSec.
• SafeNet (merge between Rainbow, Chrysalis, SafeNet (used to be IRE)) Luna, SafeEnterprise and CryptoSwift (PCI, EN, HSM).
  
• Spyrus' LYNKS and FORTEZZA Privacy Card / HSM.
  
• Sun Crypto Accelerator 500/1000/4000 boards.
  

Banking

• HP Atalla Network Security Processor.
• Thales e-Security (was Racall),  HSM 7000/8000 and other hardware.
  

Related Links

• NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program (FIPS 140-2).  Most cryptographic coprocessors and HSM that come out these days get FIPS 140-2 certification.
• PKCS#11 standard.  Also refered to as Cryptoki.  An API supported by many crypto coprocessors and HSMs.
• Joylon Clulow's research.  Attacks against Tamper Resistant/Responding Security Modules (also referred to as crypto coprocessors and HSMs) through exploiting vulnerabilities in their API.  Describes interesting PIN recovery attacks on banking HSMs.
• Building a High-Performance, Programmable Secure Coprocessor (1998).  Sean W. Smith, Steve Weingart.  A good paper on designing a secure cryptographic coprocessor, HSM.
• Peter Gutmann's open-source crytographic coprocessor.  Slides.  Extended Paper.