[90399] in Cypherpunks
RE: export restictions and investments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Nov 18 21:40:00 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 03:12:27 +0100 (CET)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: Jack Oswald <joswald@rpkusa.com>
cc: "cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <01BCF43F.82159220@joswald@rpkusa.com>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Jack Oswald wrote:
>
> I am also aware of a company called VASCO that bought a crypto chip maker in Belgium which was apparently OK too.
At this point a brief overview of modexp accelerators might be in order:
o the Belgian chips I've seen are too slow.
o the Rainbow board is OK, but non-exportable.
o the Chrysalis PCMCIA card has the same performance as the Rainbow board
at half the price. Also non-exportable.
o the Ncipher SCSI based accelearator screams, but it a bit pricey.
UK product. Exportable (?) http://www.ncipher.com/
o a high-end Alpha also performs rather nicely, according to some
benchmarks Eric Young once posted.
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