James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Randall Shimizu wrote:
IBM's encryption chip technology
(http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.20060410_security.html
)
This encrpytion technology will go a long ways to
solving internal security issues. Hopefully all
communications can now be encrypted. One difference is
that this a IP (intellectual property) system on chip
implementation. This means that the encryption can be
integrated as part of a chip rather than necessitating
the need for a seperate processor.
OK, who wants to get in the first_availability pool?
When will this first (or similar) become available on retail motherboards?
I say >2yrs but <4yrs (er.. sometime in 2008/2009)
This isn't very new tech. It is a variation on the encryption cards that
have been used on their mainframes for years. Those were designed to
speed up SSL over TPC/IP, but flip a few registers, and you have a
general purpose card.
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