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This document lists the requested revisions we identified from the reviewers comments and explains how we adressed these
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requests.
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\paragraph{Lack of discussion of operational constraints}
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\paragraph{Lack of discussion of operational constraints.}
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As pointed out by Reviewer~B, our initial submission lacked a detailed discussion of the operational constraints of
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Inertial Hardware Security Modules. We have adressed this with more than two pages of new content on the operation of
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alarms triggered by external vibrations. Section~3.5 also addressses Reviewer~B's comments on failover, backup and
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replication of cryptographic secrets.
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\paragraph{Lack of discussion of improved cooling capabilities of IHSMs compared to traditional HSMs}
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\paragraph{Lack of discussion of improved cooling capabilities of IHSMs compared to traditional HSMs.}
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As Reviewer~D pointed out, our initial submission alluded to the possibility of facilitating cooling airflow through an
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IHSM's security mesh and noted that this would allow for greater processing capabilities, but did not go into detail on
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order-of-magnitude estimation of this effect based on real-world benchmarks and information available from vendors of
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traditional HSMs.
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\paragraph{Mechanical Rotating Stage Attacks}
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\paragraph{Mechanical Rotating Stage Attacks.}
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As pointed out by Reviewer~D, in our original submission our discussion of the Swivel Chair Attack discusses attacks by
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by a rotating human attacker in depth and mentions the possibility of a fully mechanized attack robot. However, our
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have completed our discussion in this section with one half page of new content and one new diagram discussing
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fully mechanized attack robots.
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\paragraph{Comparison of IHSM attacks to those on traditional HSMs}
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\paragraph{Comparison of IHSM attacks to those on traditional HSMs.}
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In addition to the previous point, Reviewer~D pointed out that the discussion of attacks on IHSMs in our initial
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submission would have benefited from a more thorough contextualization of the attacks possible on traditional HSMs. In
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``Attacks that don't work'' and~4.3 ``Attacks that work on any HSM'' that provide this missing context to guide the
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reader.
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\paragraph{Notes on future work}
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\paragraph{Notes on future work.}
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Reviewer~D stated that they would find an outlook on the next design steps towards a practically usable design
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interesting. We have adressed this at the end of Section~7 ``Conclusion'' to the extent of our current plans.
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\paragraph{Design Artifact Availability}
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\paragraph{Design Artifact Availability.}
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Reviewer~D state that acceess to design artifacts would be useful for readers of the paper. While we cannot make our
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design artifacts available as part of the peer review process as they contain a multitude of references to the
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identities of the authors and their employer, we have added a brief appendix that in the publication version of our
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paper will contain a link to the open-source repository containing all hardware, software and paper sources relating to
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our research project.
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\paragraph{Detailed discussion of contactless attacks}
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\paragraph{Detailed discussion of contactless attacks.}
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Reviewer~C noted that like a traditional HSM an IHSM cannot prevent contactless attacks such as electromagnetic
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sidechannel attacks or laser fault injection. While our initial submission acknowledged this property of our design, our
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observe that the IHSM design allows for some mitigations against contactless attacks due to the physically larger space
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it can provide to its payload.
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\paragraph{Justification of mesh monitor power consumption estimates}
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\paragraph{Justification of mesh monitor power consumption estimates.}
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A point noted by Reviewer~B is that in our initial submission we provided an estimate on the current consumption of an
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IHSM monitoring cirucit without providing a detailed justification of our estimate. In response, we have extended
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