Abstract

The ANSI Financial Institution Key Management (Wholesale) Standard (X9. 17) describes a standard level of protection to assure the security of keying material, which includes the cryptographic keys and other related information needed to manage the keys, and the key management facility(KMF), which is the physical enclosure (for example, device or room) containing the cryptographic elements-hardware, software, firmware, keys, and so forth. The minimum requirements specified by the standard include:
Control of keying material during the entire life of the keys. Keys must be randomly generated. To protect keys from unintended or unauthorized disclosure they must either be physically secured or. encrypted. T o protect keying material from unintended or unauthorized modification it must either be physically secured or cryptographically authenticated. When physical protection is not possible, keying material must …

Date

1985

Authors

D Balenson

Journal

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volume

23

Issue

9

Pages

41-46

Publisher

IEEE