RE: possible customer for a Forth box?

Stuart Johnson (stuartj@packetengines.com)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:51:18 -0700

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Bailey [SMTP:greg@minerva.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 1998 9:23 PM
> To: 'stuartj@packetengines.com'
> Cc: 'ATHENA Tech'; 'ark-gvb'
> Subject: RE: possible customer for a Forth box?
>
> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:12:17 -0700, Stuart Johnson
> <stuartj@packetengines.com> wrote:
>
> > i'm currently looking for a box or chipset that will encryption
> > ethernet traffic at or near wire speed. does anyone know of such a
> > thing? anyhelp will be greatly appreciated.
>
> We might be able to help, but the above is not a complete problem
> statement. It could be read as use of Ether for a point to point
> connection between two machines with all traffic encrypted, which
> is a nice and simple key management problem. Or it might mean
> two or more boxes plugged into an Ethernet with only traffic
> between these pairs of boxes encrypted. This is a much harder
> key management problem and also is full of special cases such as
> some protocols (ARP for example) that must never be encrypted.
>
thanks all for the quick replies, for my needs a point to point
connection is fine.

i've looked at a few things out there (netfortress, some bay routers)
but they are all very slow, i'm looking for a wire speed implementation
(100-1000Mb/s) is there anything out there in this arena? or do i have
to make my own <g>. if i were to embark on building my own is there any
body of work out there that would help me get a jump start? i have the
LAN protocol knowledge but my crypto knowledge is limited to what i've
read in Schneier.

thanks,

-stuart

ps. i should now be on the lists, but if you could cc replies to me i'd
appreciate it
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