[5078] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: World's fastest hardware encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Thu Jul 8 19:13:33 1999
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 20:09:18 -0500
To: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <3782DE3D.7C3ABFD3@pobox.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In <3782DE3D.7C3ABFD3@pobox.com>, on 07/07/99
at 10:27 AM, Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com> said:
>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.
Well it's only DES which we all know can easily be broken. Doing weak
crypto really fast is not all that impressive to me.
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