Re: [openpgp] SHA3 algorithm ids.

[ianG <[e-mail]>]

On 13/08/2015 14:32 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>>      So let's not assume that these low-end processors are going away, please?
>>
>> Well the constraint on processing is easing up due to the move from RSA to ECC.
>
> Sure, it reduces computation time from tens of seconds down to ones of
> seconds.  ;)
>
>> And for the amount of data going though one of these processors, the choice of
>> AES or DES doesn't make much of a difference. These things don't have to
>> communicate very fast.
>>
>> The thing that gets really uncomfortable is dealing with the amount of memory
>> available. Quite a few of the embedded chips have even less RAM than the
>> Commodore PET I started with when 32KB was the large machine.
>
> Oh, yeah.  Some of the environments I work in have like 2-4KB of RAM!


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>> Yes, these chips are not going away any time soon. The number of chips being
>> made with 6502 based cores has increased every year since the 80s. But the
>> problem with the chips isn't just that they are slow.
>
> I'm not seeing 6502, but I am seeing a lot of 8051.
>
> -derek
>