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Re: Gbit/s encryption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Bailey)
Wed Nov 12 11:03:43 1997
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:20:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Dan Bailey <dan@milliways.org>
To: Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.net>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199711102103.OAA18501@nyx10.nyx.net>
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-090.html
DES chip doing DES-ECB and DES-CBC in a GaAs gate array at 250 MHz,
yielding 1 Gb/s. Not commercially available last I checked.
Cheers
Dan
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Colin Plumb wrote:
> 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
>
>
