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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!str-ccsun!strath-cs!ALMAC!keith.willis
- From: keith.willis@almac.co.uk
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: shift registers??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.864.126@ALMAC>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:32:05 GMT
- Distribution: sci
- Organization: ALMAC PC Board
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- SR> As an illustration the fastest modular-exponentiator chips (which are quite
- SR> expensive at about $1000 a throw) can achieve about 64kbps, rising to 128kbps
- SR> soon. (modular-exponentiation is the fundamental step in RSA,
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- You mean that one could implement RSA in hardware for a
- reasonably low price? And would such a device still infringe
- the patents (in the US), or do they only cover software
- implementations?
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- ~ PQ 2.15 194 ~ Logic outputs like to get high.
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