On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:19:04PM -0700, zooko wrote:
and probably other commodity products). Likewise newfangled ciphers like
Salsa20 and EnRUPT will be considered by me to be faster than AES (because
they are faster in software) rather than slower (because AES might be built
into the
On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:55 PM, David G. Koontz wrote:
[Moderator's note: this seems to be much more about the open source
wars and such than about crypto and security. I'm not going to
forward replies on this topic that don't specifically address
security issues -- those who were not
David G. Koontz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
zooko wrote:
US export control regulations prevent Sun from opensourcing the crypto
portion of N2..
You've got to admit, that the work load for implementation is quite a bit
higher without the PCI-E, 10GE MACs, and crypto, for a piece of competitive
On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:35 PM, David G. Koontz wrote:
There's the aspect of competition.
I've also wondered if a reason they didn't release it is because
they bought
the 'IP' from someone.
Those are good guesses, David, and I guessed similar things myself
and inquired of various Sun
zooko wrote:
On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:35 PM, David G. Koontz wrote:
There's the aspect of competition.
I've also wondered if a reason they didn't release it is because they
bought
the 'IP' from someone.
Those are good guesses, David, and I guessed similar things myself and
inquired of
I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than
software.
/r$
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I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than
software.
A hardware design is not hardware. Only a naive parsing of the
words would treat it so. A software design is not treated like
software; you are free to write about how ATM machine crypto is
designed, even if you
If only to make sure that there's no confusion about where I stand: I
agree with you completely John. I am not surprised that the feds or Sun
see it otherwise.
/r$
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Richard Salz wrote:
I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than
software.
That's an interesting observation, raising the issue of what is speech
vs hardware.
When I looked into this issue, I found the Common Criteria
certification methodology as evidence
Lawerence Spracklen's Blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/sprack/entry/detailed_t2_crypto_info
Detailed T2 crypto info
Very detailed info on the UltraSPARC T2 cryptographic accelerators can be
found here on the OpenSPARC website (the pertinent info can be found in
chapter-21 of the doc)
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Dear people of the cryptography mailing list:
I received a note from Sridhar Vajapey, head of the Sun OpenSPARC
programme, which releases a complete modern CPU under the GPL.
Except that it isn't complete -- the parts that do AES, SHA-1 and
SHA-2, and public key crypto acceleration are
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