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RE: IPSEC on a Palm III?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Tue Apr 6 19:37:02 1999
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 15:29:26 -0700
To: William Whyte <wwhyte@baltimore.ie>,
"'Robert Hettinga'" <rah@shipwright.com>,
"cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BE8078.A73B1310.wwhyte@baltimore.ie>
At 09:58 PM 4/6/99 +0100, William Whyte wrote:
>> 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.
>
Hmm.. a crypto-ibutton would not take up much space...
