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

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

2002-03-24 Thread Eric Young
> > >Adam Back wrote: > >>openSSL on a PIII-633Mhz can do 265 512 bit CRT RSA per >>second, or 50 1024 bit CRT RSA per second. So wether it will >>even speed up current entry-level systems depends on the >>correct interpretation of the product sheet. >> I don't know what the OpenSSL people

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.

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

2002-03-23 Thread Lucky Green
Adam Back wrote: > openSSL on a PIII-633Mhz can do 265 512 bit CRT RSA per > second, or 50 1024 bit CRT RSA per second. So wether it will > even speed up current entry-level systems depends on the > correct interpretation of the product sheet. > > And the economics of course depends on how

Re: Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-23 Thread Roop Mukherjee
I was posing this question with some client based transaction system in mind such as the proposed digital rights management (DRM) system, as opposed to secure access to servers. There are several companies that are touting that they have solutions for DRM. Microsoft's story is that they have a se

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 th

Re: Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-23 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Bearer Settlement List <[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 >

Re: Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-21 Thread Greg Rose
At 12:06 AM 3/22/2002 +, Adam Back 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 connections >per second. So that's CRT RSA, not sure if

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 &

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 > c

[Fwd: Secure peripheral cards]

2002-03-20 Thread Sandy Harris
Roop Mukherjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am searching for some citable references about secure peripheral > cards. ... > I am looking to see what are the peripherals that have > cryptographic capabilities and what are thier capabilities? Intel and 3Com have ethernet

Re: Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-20 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: "Roop Mukherjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 21 March, 2002 8:21 AM Subject: Secure peripheral cards > I am searching for some citable references about secure peripheral cards. > Contrary to what I had

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 accelerator

Secure peripheral cards

2002-03-20 Thread Roop Mukherjee
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 and what are thier capabilities? The Embassy