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Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Rescorla)
Fri Jun 6 17:37:51 2003
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To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
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moeller@cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
Reply-To: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: 06 Jun 2003 14:16:34 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200306051011.h55ABjv21031@medusa01.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> Bodo Moeller <moeller@cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
>
> >Using an explicit state machine helps to get code suitable for multiplexing
> >within a single thread various connections using non-blocking I/O.
>
> Is there some specific advantage here, or is it an academic exercise? Some
> quirk of supporting certain types of hardware like nCipher boxes that do async
> crypto/scatter-gather?
I've had to do this on environments where threads weren't a viable
option. See, for instance, my paper from USENIX Security 2002.
-Ekr
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