German students develop crypto chip

[PHalliden@baltimore.com]

On 24 June 1999 14:13 Barry de la Rosa said
>A story on Slashdot mentions that German students at Stuttgart have
>developed a crypto chip, and are to release the VHDL as Open Source.
>
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/06/23/130207&mode=flat
>
>What are the implications of Open Sourcing a VHDL? And is this chip
>really groundbreaking or particularly fast?
>

Interesting to see both algorithms on a single chip.  DES performance is
respectable although it looks as though it is only single-DES not Triple DES
(my German is not up to being certain).  The Dutch company Pijnenburg
http://www.pijnenburg.com/ was doing 132Mbit/s  DES three years ago with
support for triple DES.  RSA performance is similarly respectable but
maximum key length is short - even smart cards are doing up to 1024-bit. See
for instance http://www.gemplus.com/products/microprocessor/gpk.htm

Regards
Paul Halliden
Director for Strategic Technology
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