[8249] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: IBM press release - encryption and authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Thayer)
Mon Dec 11 00:53:14 2000
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 08:24:08 -0800
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Rodney Thayer <rodney@tillerman.to>
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this is talking about parallizing processing of an individual message.
the application for this is packet processing in a protocol stack,
or "lower", packet processing in hardware below+/inside the protocol
stack.
you can't parallelize IPsec, for example, as you can't process the HMAC
at the end until you've encrypted the body.
P.s, when he spoke at Stanford I asked about patents and he said
it was patented, and he said NIST is trying to get them to put it
in the public domain.
At 10:32 AM 12/8/00 -0800, Bram Cohen wrote:
>No word, of course, on how the thing actually works, or whether they
>intend to patent it.
>
>A note to the clueful about it being 'parellelizable' - almost all crypto
>stuff can be parallelized by putting different tasks on different
>processors, since the vast majority of crypto applications have multiple
>tasks on a server going on at once.
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