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Re: [openpgp] SHA3 algorithm ids.

Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> Thu, 13 August 2015 13:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] SHA3 algorithm ids.
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Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> 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!

> 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

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