[48932] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto-smart-card startup Inside Technologies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Thu Feb 1 15:30:26 1996
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:30:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: Peter Monta <pmonta@qualcomm.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <m0ti503-0008zrC@pacifier.com>
One other little point about 640 bit rsa; there's no way I'd ever buy an
RSA accellerator tuned for 640, for one very simple reason. Most of the
important keys I want an acellerator for are 1024 bits or longer - C/As,
SETT banks, etc. I want to be able to clear 20 PKOPs per second without
impacting the main CPUS; if I need to buy a busful of these babies they'd
better be damn cheap and be available with duplicate keys...
Simon
