Re: World's fastest hardware encryption

[David Honig]

At 03:46 PM 7/8/99 +0100, Rieks Joosten wrote:
>Does anyone know if this chip can do CBC mode and what the speed 
>of that is?

As each input trickles through the pipeline,
at the last stage, it updates the IV register 
for the next block, which appears one clock later.

Just a fantasy; I have no idea whether the Sandia
engine includes CBC.  Does it really matter?