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Gbit/s encryption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Plumb)
Tue Nov 11 14:28:27 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:03:43 -0700 (MST)
From: Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.net>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Somebody just asked me about encrypting at 1 Gbit/s and 4 Gbit/s fibre channel
rates. I remember one project that managed key-agile CBC encryption of OC-12
(~650 Mbit/sec) ATM cells (with a key change every 48 bytes!), using some
amazing commercial DES chip, but I can't seem to find the paper, or the
chip.
Does anyone know of encryption hardware that runs at such speeds?
Thanks for any pointers.
--
-Colin
