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Mitsubishi MISTY LSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Wed Sep 25 17:02:48 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:37:22 GMT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Nikkei English News, 24 September 1996.
Mitsubishi unveils Japan's fastest encryption chip
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said it has developed an LSI
that can encrypt data at a speed of 450 megabits per
second, which is four times faster than any other
encryption chip developed in Japan and brings domestic
technology in line with DES, the U.S.-developed
encryption system that has become the standard in the
U.S. and Europe.
Because the chip performs the same as DES, Mitsubishi
will promote it as a domestic product for encryption
needs in Japan, with an eye on the growing market for
corporate intranets and high-speed data communications.
It said it will prepare for volume production during this
year.
The company fabricated the chip as a gate array using a
0.5 micron CMOS process and its own proprietary
encryption algorithm MISTY. Operating at a maximum
input/output speed of 40 megahertz, the chip can handle
32 bits per clock cycle.
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