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Article #3127Re: How fast is DES?
From: Kevin S. McCurley
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:37
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:37
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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 ... Kevin McCurley Sandia National Laboratories
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!cs.sandia.gov!mccurley 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 References: <1ihdcmINNslg@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <1993Jan8.063123.5194@qualcomm.com> <1993Jan11.005724.5271@psych.psy.uq.oz.au> Sender: usenet@cs.sandia.gov (Another name for news) Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 16