[90554] in Cypherpunks
RE: export restictions and investments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stewarts@ix.netcom.com)
Thu Nov 20 00:31:51 1997
From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:59:40 -0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, Jack Oswald <joswald@rpkusa.com>
Original-From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120030154.10759A-100000@pakastelohi.cyphe
rpunks.to>
Reply-To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
At 03:12 AM 11/20/1997 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
>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.
All of the non-exportable ones sound like specialized cryptographic devices,
which are of course evil threats to Yankee National Security,
so of course they're not exportable. On the other hand, if they weren't
crypto-specific, but just did modexps or other bignum stuff,
as long as they weren't faster than a PentiumII-400,
and didn't use the C-word in the product literature, they'd be exportable.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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