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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:55
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:50:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, 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.
General purpose computers are vastly more susceptible to software
compromise than discrete dedicated pieces of hardware are.
Also, it just plain isn't economically feasible to guard computers against
side channel attacks, while it is feasible for dedicated hardware.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:55