Dear people of the cryptography mailing list:
I received a note from Sridhar Vajapey, head of the Sun "OpenSPARC"
programme, which releases a complete modern CPU under the GPL.
Except that it isn't complete -- the parts that do AES, SHA-1 and
SHA-2, and public key crypto acceleration are a
I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than
software.
/r$
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WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
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The Cryptog
> I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than
> software.
A hardware "design" is not hardware. Only a naive parsing of the
words would treat it so. A software design is not treated like
software; you are free to write about how ATM machine crypto is
designed, even if y
If only to make sure that there's no confusion about where I stand: I
agree with you completely John. I am not surprised that the feds or Sun
see it otherwise.
/r$
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STSM, DataPower Chief Programmer
WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/datapower/
Richard Salz wrote:
I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than
software.
That's an interesting observation, raising the issue of what is "speech"
vs hardware.
When I looked into this issue, I found the "Common Criteria"
certification methodology as evidence