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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:20 ADT
Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@arrow.eng.us.uu.net)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 11:53:21 -0400
I'm replying to the list as a whole, as I believe this is of
general interest, even though not 100% software related.
>I am looking for hardware accelerator cards that include DES/Triple
>DES (additional symmetric key algorthms okay). They must run on
>Windows computers. Most likely they will be PCI cards.
http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/oem/index.htm
>I have found several hardware accelerators, but they currently
>support public key algorithms only. At least one vendor is planning
>to add symmetric key algorithms, but product is not available now.
They have two chip-level products, the SuperCrypt chip, and
a much newer (and way faster) MasterCrypt chip. Superb if you are
building your own hardware.
They have two board-level products, one ISA, one PCI, both
designed around the SuperCrypt chips.
We (UUNET) used the SuperCrypt part in our now-defunct "LanGuardian"
product several years ago -- its a good solid part, and pretty fast.
As another point of information, the ISA version of this card is
what TIS ships as their hardware encryptor for their VPN product.
(As you can tell, commercial companies trust this enough to ship it,
so you'll probably be OK with it too...)
The databooks for the SuperCrypt part have enough sample code to
get it up and running from scratch. Finally, if you need to do
this internationally, you're in luck, they are german company.
-Kurt
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:20 ADT