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Re: [Cfrg] Curve selection revisited

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Wed, 30 July 2014 19:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Curve selection revisited
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Hannes Tschofenig
<hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Mike, Hi Bob,
>
> Saying that you need hardware acceleration because of performance, RAM
> and ROM size supported by some boards running 8-bit microcontrollers is
> a bit lying to ourselves. The hardware acceleration might in fact
> involve a chip with 32-bit.

Sorry, no, that does not help at all. The only way to reduce the
number of 8 bit processors would be to burn down the fabs.

The problem is that when the price on the 32 bit processor drops to
the price of the 8 bit, the 8 bit processor also drops in price. And
then it proliferates to another layer of devices. Which is why the
number of 6502 and Z80 processors has climbed exponentially since the
80s.

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