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David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:53:48 -0700
At 01:22 PM 8/5/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>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.
Um, yes, on a 28K modem. But devoting your Pentium to LAN rate
encryption rather leaves it unavailable for other things.
"The world only needs 5 computers" -TJ Watson
"What do you need floating point for on a chip? You can do
it in software." -someone in the 80s
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.
>
That flexibility can also work against you. A hostile OS can
subvert you. A closed box outside your computer, handling all
outside communications, can't change.
"Where do you want (your messages) to go today?"
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:55