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In article <1992Aug20.160528.2155@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.864.126@ALMAC>, keith.willis@almac.co.uk
>writes:
>
>> 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?
>
>Chips that "do RSA" are in fact no more than modular
>multiplication chips (they perform the calculation C=(M**E) mod N,
>for C M E and N very large numbers, typically 512 or 1024 bits).
>
>This can be done quite cheaply. Philips designed but never sold a
>smart card to do it,

Not yet, but Philips will probably sell it in the future.  At least
they are still developing the card (and it does need development,
for instance, it's not yet ISO 7816 compliant, i.e. many smart card
readers cannot handle the Philips RSA card).



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