Re: [oc] crypto-accelerator

[tom st denis <tomstdenis@yahoo.com>]

--- Paulus M Tamba <ulus132@cyberlib.itb.ac.id> wrote:
> hi all
> 
> i would like to work on crpyto accelerator, but i couldn't find any
> website which gives brief explanation about crypto. i would like to
> ask
> you all where to find about crypto.

Well what do you want to implement?  A general purpose Crypto
Accelerator should have

a) A Block cipher, preferably AES (not yet decided)
b) A Hash Function, preferably SHA-1
c) A Large Integer ALU, such as a 1024-bit ALU
d) A physical RNG device (thermal noise, etc...)

If the device has all four a-d components it would be very popular and
usefull.  It should also have some memory to hold keys on the device,
so possibly it would need a few kb of ram...

Then it should have a nice PCI or ISA interface say using a few memory
locations (memory mapped io) or actual I/O ports.  I can provide
analysis and support, but I haven't much clues about designing
hardware.

Tom

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