[810] in Cypherpunks
Hardware vs software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hkhenson@cup.portal.com)
Thu Jun 3 15:23:21 1993
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: hkhenson@cup.portal.com
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 02:16:03 PDT
RE this topic, there are methods (Merkle's for example) where you can get
multiple megabytes per second through a good encryption algorithm in a
CPU. DES is kind of optimised for doing it in hardware, so don't take
how slow it is in software as the limit for good encryption. Keith
(Gnu posted the paper a long time ago in sci.crypt, but I don't know if
I can find it on my newer system.)
