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RE: IPSEC on a Palm III?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Whyte)
Tue Apr 6 18:15:12 1999
From: William Whyte <wwhyte@baltimore.ie>
To: "'Robert Hettinga'" <rah@shipwright.com>,
"cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 21:58:49 +0100
> Do any of the ipsec folks out there have any idea whether the Palm III has
> the oomph to do IPSEC?
>
> I'm thinking about that active badge stuff, where you beam yourself an
> environment and file access onto the nearest larger machine...
I did a back-of-an-envelope calculation recently which made it look
like they could just about hack RSA public key operations, and
presumably also ECDSA/ECDH, but would take way too long (c. 2 minutes)
to do RSA private key ops or DSA/DH. As you work up towards the bigger
Palms the figures get better, but still scary.
Cheers,
William
