Entrust datacenters

In the cloud-based Entrust data centers, the multi-tenant signing key management selects the nShield HSM that will:

  • Generate and wrap the keys when processing key generation requests.

  • Unwrap the signing key of the signing key database and sign a document hash when processing a signature request.

nShield HSMs are FIPS 140-2 L3 compliant devices for:

  • Generating and wrapping the keys stored in the signing key database.

  • Unwrapping the signing keys.

  • Signing document hashes with the unwrapped keys.

The Entrust data centers never access the documents to be signed because generating a digital signature only requires the document hash.