[5076] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: World's fastest hardware encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rieks Joosten)
Thu Jul 8 12:20:13 1999
From: "Rieks Joosten" <r.joosten@pijnenburg.nl>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:46:00 +0100
Reply-To: r.joosten@pijnenburg.nl
In-reply-to: <3782DE3D.7C3ABFD3@pobox.com>
Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com> wrote:
> found on slashdot, where it was headlined "The first step to
> cypherspace ?"
>
> http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR1999/encrypt.htm
>
> Sandia researchers develop world's fastest encryptor
> Soon will protect classified computer information
>
> ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --The world's fastest encryption device, developed
> at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories,
> should soon be protecting data being transmitted from supercomputers,
> workstations, telephones and video terminals. It encrypts data at
> more than 6.7 billion bits per second, 10 times faster than any other
> known encryptor. <snip>
They are doing DES in a pipelined fashion. You can obtain these
speeds easily (using .25 or .18 micron chip technology), *provided*
you're only crypting in ECB mode.
Does anyone know if this chip can do CBC mode and what the speed
of that is?
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