Re: RSA on general-purpose CPU's [was:RE: Secure peripheral cards]

2002-03-25 Thread Adam Back
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:00:12PM -0800, Eric Young wrote: openSSL on a PIII-633Mhz can do 265 512 bit CRT RSA per I don't know what the OpenSSL people did to the x86 ASM code, but SSLeay (the precursor to OpenSSL, over 3 years old) did/does 330 512bit and 55 1024 bit RSAs a second on a

Re: Foghorn Fritz, the CBDTPA, and the revenge of the Wave-oids (Re: Secure peripheral cards)

2002-03-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 5:04 PM -0500 on 3/23/02, R. A. Hettinga wrote: During the internet stock bubble, his investors, self-described Wave-oids, would haunt the investor web-chats and shout down anyone who talked about actual revenue as a short focused on the Next Big Thing in Entertainment Technology. I

Re: Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-23 Thread R. A. Hettinga
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Secure peripheral cards R. A. Hettinga wrote: ... I'm not sure NCipher gear is the #1 for acceleration, I think they're probably more focussed and used for secure key management. For example they quote [1] an nForce can do up to 400 new SSL

fast SSL accelerators (Re: Secure peripheral cards)

2002-03-23 Thread Adam Back
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:39:01PM +1100, Greg Rose wrote: But don't forget that your pentium can't do anything *else* while it's doing those RSAs... whereas the machine with the nForce can be actually servicing the requests. While that is true, the issue is the economics; depending on the

Re: Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-21 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 7:21 PM -0500 on 3/20/02, Roop Mukherjee wrote: I am searching for some citable references about secure peripheral cards. Contrary to what I had imagined when I had started searching, I found very little. I am looking to see what are the peripherals that have cryptographic capabilities

Re: Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-21 Thread Adam Back
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:02:20AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 7:21 PM -0500 on 3/20/02, Roop Mukherjee wrote: I am searching for some citable references about secure peripheral cards. Contrary to what I had imagined when I had started searching, I found very little. I am looking

Re: Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-20 Thread Sean Smith
Well, there's always the IBM 4758, which we built as a general-purpose secure computer environment for hostile environments, with the ability for on-device applications to prove to the outside world what they are and where they're running. IBM's been marketing it primarily as a crypto