Re: Performance figures for RSH/DH?

Vin McLellan (vin@shore.net)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:25:54 -0400

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At 5:08 PM -0400 10/20/98, Bodo Moeller wrote:

Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> queried the List:
>>> I seem to recall that Eric Young posted RSA performance figures on various
>>> architectures to this list some time back (Alpha, x84, MIPS, etc). Does
>>> anybody have a pointer to these figures? Furthermore, is there a similar
>>> table for DH keys?

John Kelsey <kelsey@plnet.net> also asked:
>> Additionally, are any figures available for these things on 8-bit
>> micros and smartcard processors?

Bodo Moeller <Bodo_Moeller@public.uni-hamburg.de> suggested:

>For some data on smartcard PKC co-processor performance, you might
>want to look at the second article in the latest CryptoBytes issue
>(see <URL:http://www.rsa.com/PUBS/>).

Volume 4, No. 1 - Summer 1998 (pdf, 470k) (Zipped PostScript)
ftp://ftp.rsa.com/pub/cryptobytes/crypto4n1.pdf

"Performance Comparison of Public-Key Cryptosystems"
_Michael J. Wiener, Entrust Technologies <wiener@entrust.com>

"Smart Card Crypto-Coprocessors for Public-Key Cryptography"
_Helena Handschuh, Gemplus/ENST <handschuh@gemplus.com>
_Pascal Paillier, Gemplus/ENST <paillier@gemplus.com>

"Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption"
_Ronald L. Rivest, MIT <rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
<http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest>

"DES, Triple-DES and AES"
_Eli Biham, Technion <biham@cs.technion.ac.il>
<http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/>
_Lars R. Knudsen, University of Bergen <lars.knudsen@ii.uib.no>
<http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/>
[See also <http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/bc.html> Block Cipher Lounge]

"DES-II Challenges Solved"
_RSA Staff <http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/html/challenges.html>

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