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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: DES chip
- Message-ID: <Bz6GLw.EI5@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:05:54 GMT
- References: <Bz44Ax.1Lx@fc.hp.com>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <Bz44Ax.1Lx@fc.hp.com> subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
- >Does anyone know where I can obtain a DES chip for a sun workstation?
-
- You can't get the chip from a third party and just drop it in -- there's
- a chip or two of control electronics that has to go with it, and as far
- as I know, Sun is the only source for that.
-
- Most modern Suns don't even have a socket for it. I don't think anything
- more recent than the early Sun 3s does.
-
- More to the point, why do you want one? There's no software which uses
- it, and it's not particularly fast. Reportedly, the last nail in its
- coffin was the discovery that carefully-built software encryption routines
- were faster.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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