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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Wed, 05 Aug 1998 13:22:53 +0100
William H. Geiger III wrote:
>
> I am rather underwhelmed by hardware based crypto. There is just no way of
> verifying that these systems are doing what they claim to be doing. It is
> just too easy to fudge the books without anyone knowing.
>
> Perhaps I am getting too cynical in my old age but there are no big
> electronics shops that I would trust to build crypto hardware. They are
> all too dependent on government contracts.
With the speed of ordinary processors today I also don't see any
necessity or big advantage of using hardware crypto rather than
software, if one limits consideration to that part of the
communication that really needs security protection. With Software
one is more flexible (i.e. some modifications or change of parameters
of the algorithms) and that flexibility can cause headache to
the analyst.
M. K. Shen
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