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- From: mccurley@cs.sandia.gov (Kevin S. McCurley)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: How fast is DES?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.193751.12762@cs.sandia.gov>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:37:51 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan11.193751.12762
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- In article <1993Jan11.005724.5271@psych.psy.uq.oz.au> eay@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Eric Young) writes:
- >BTW a DEC Alpha 500 APX I played with does 830kbytes/s in cbc mode.
- >From what I remember seeing in this newsgroup, DES hardware often does
- >~20mbit/sec. The top end Alpha, with assembler should be >= 8mbit/sec.
- >
- >Hardware giving only a 2.5 speedup?
- >I get the feeling it should be possible to produce much faster DES
- >chips.... :-)
-
- At Crypto '92 there was a presentation from Hans Eberle of DEC Systems
- Research Center about a GaAs gate array that would operate at 250 Mhz,
- or 1 Gbit/sec. It supports ECB and CBC modes. As I remember it had a
- nice cooling tower ...
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- Kevin McCurley
- Sandia National Laboratories
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