DSA on chip already exists. Its called the ALU. Well tuned integer code can get very very quick. And if we really need performance djb has extremely fast crypto routines we could use in NaCl, but that would require changing a bunch of things.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, coderman <coder...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:00 AM, TheGravitator > <thegravita...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Its not all i7's, only the i7-980X (extreme series) about $1000. > > AES-NI is pretty slick. now if only we could get RSA/DSA/DH on die... :) > > [the benchmarks in question show 875MB/s AES256 on PhenomII X6 1090T @ > 3.8Ghz as the closest competitor to the 11,000MB/s on i7-980X w/ > AES-NI instruction at less clock.] > > i haven't had a processor to test with; has any Tor user had luck with > openssl-aesni patches against 1.0.0? > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > -- "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/