[4392] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: questions on AES analysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Fri Mar 26 14:26:35 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:28:38 -0800
To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>,
William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <19990325100022.26424@slack.lne.com>
At 10:00 AM 3/25/99 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
>Yow! That doesn't sound like any smart card I know.
>Does it have a display and keyboard and run WindowsCE :-)
>
>Currently shipping 7816 cards max out at about 32k of FLASH
>for program and data, and a few K of RAM. Most are 8-bit processors
>but there's been some work on putting a 32-bit ARM in cards.
I worked on a Cylink smart card a few years back. Besides cost, two of the
toughest challenges to advaced smart cards are staying with the power
supply budget and meeting the flex test (particularly bad on large die sizes).
--Steve
