Cool! We don't actually use the JCP for crypto (but we do for hashing), due to keylength export issues we provide our own Rijndael. But we could. Especially if somebody else was to do the work involved. :)
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:10:20PM +0000, Bob wrote: > Some of you might remember I posted about the VIA C7 a while ago. If not I > suggested that its hardware 1-cycle RNG, AES, SHA-1 / SHA-256 hashing and > "Montgomery multipliers" could make for a great low power freenet box, > provided > it could be made to support them. They still aren't out (apparently they ship > in > quantity next month) so overall performance is still a bit of an unknown, but > appears to be reasonable given the power consumption, especially given the > extremely fast crypto performance. > > VIA have recently released a JCP (Java Crytography Provider) which overloads > things like SecureRandom with padlock accelerated versions :) The current > release only supports the hardware AES and RNG, but support for SHA hashing > and > the MM's will be in a future release. Win32 and Linux are supported, and a > nice > suprise is that it appears to come with full source code under a > BSD-with-advertising-clause like license so the security conscious or > performance freaks could presumably compile it themselves. > > VIA press release : > http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/via-jcp.jsp > JCP itself : > http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=22&DSCat=162&DCatType=1 > Techy overview (multilined for gmane) > https://embeddedjava.dev.java.net/community_site/ > articles/viajcp_embeddedjavacommunity_article.pdf > > Bob -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20051117/2445438e/attachment.pgp>
