One big advantage is that it negates the necessity to use additional chips. Thus reducing the amount of space needed. For example it would be possible implement the encryption at several different points on system. If it were implemented as seperate chip then the space constraints are much more problematic.
Like I said before it's already used by a unamed mobile device company. --- Legatus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
