[5085] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: World's fastest hardware encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Fri Jul 9 01:09:12 1999
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 18:00:45 -0700
To: r.joosten@pijnenburg.nl, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <99Jul8.154642gmt+0100.29569@gateway.pijnenburg.nl>
At 03:46 PM 7/8/99 +0100, Rieks Joosten wrote:
>Does anyone know if this chip can do CBC mode and what the speed
>of that is?
As each input trickles through the pipeline,
at the last stage, it updates the IV register
for the next block, which appears one clock later.
Just a fantasy; I have no idea whether the Sandia
engine includes CBC. Does it really matter?
