Hnossa
Hnossa is used to simplify and automate provisioning of PKI certificates for smartcards or equivalent carriers. Used in all instances where larger number of PKI based cards or devices need to be issued. For example:
- Payment cards with additional certificates for signing
- PKI cards for government or corporate organizations
- Passports or ID cards with embedded chip and certificates
Other uses include provisioning of certificates for manufacturing facilities for products requiring unique ID, signatures, encryption. Examples of devices includes smart card readers, gaming platforms and software licensing applications.
Hnossa helps to relieve the burden from issuing banks and service bureaus of having to build in the logic of key generation and certification into their own card management systems. Also, the appliance allows for offboard key generation which is becoming a necessity as key lengths grow and onboard key generation becomes impracticable and time consuming.
Key benefits with Hnossa
- Reduced manufacturing time.
- Offboard generation of keys and certificates for mass distribution or large deployments of PKI on cards.
- Secure Data processing. Has been designed for secure key generation and signing based on PKI for Banking and National ID Scheme applications.
- Scaleable: Hnossa is a fully scaleable platform for both smaller issuing banks to large bureaus.
- Transaction processing: Applications can request keys and certificates from Hnossa through a secure communication channel.
- Audit & Event management: Hnossa offers tamper evident logs for accounting and certification.
- Resilience and increased throughput by clustering.
- HSM includes a tamper resistant, hardware cryptographic processor used extensively by institutions world wide.
