The KOV-14 Fortezza Plus is a US National Security Agency -approved PC card which provides encryption functions and key storage to Secure Terminal Equipment and other devices. [1]

The image above shows a FORTEZZA-II (Plus) card, also known as KOV-14, which uses the later Mykotronx MYK-82 crypto processor. The version shown here was built by Spyrus (USA) around 1997, and was decommissioned in 2007.

TEMPEST: protecting plaintext from compromise by electronic, acoustic, or other emanations. Tamper resistance, tamper-evident, self-destruct: ensuring security even if cipher devices are physically accessed without authorization or are captured.

KSV-21 Enhanced Crypto Card is a PCMCIA expansion card with cryptographic and key storage features for Secure Telephone Equipment (STE), originally made by SafeNet, but since produced by Raytheon in Waltham (Massachusetts, US), as …

The KSV-21 was originally built by SafeNet but has since been purchased by Raytheon [1] as a tamper-resistant reprogrammable module and is backwards compatible with the KOV-14 Fortezza Plus card. It adds features including support for SCIP, Enhanced Firefly and NSA's 21st century Key Management Initiative.

The KOV-14 Fortezza Plus is a US National Security Agency-approved PC card which provides encryption functions and key storage to the Secure Terminal Equipment and other devices.

The KOV-14 Fortezza Plus PC card provides encryption functions and key storage to the Secure Terminal Equipment (and other devices).

Secure Terminal Equipment (STE) is the U.S. government's current (as of 2008), encrypted telephone communications system for wired or "landline" communications. STE is designed to use ISDN telephone lines which offer higher speeds of up to 128 kbit/s and are all digital.

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The KOV-14 Fortezza Plus is a US National Security Agency-approved PC card which provides encryption functions and key storage to Secure Terminal Equipment and ...