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Re: Clogging attacks on SKIP

To: bsimpson@morningstar.com
Subject: Re: Clogging attacks on SKIP
From: uri@watson.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 17:34:09 -0500 (EST)
Cc: ipsec@ans.net
In-Reply-To: <3649.bill.simpson@um.cc.umich.edu> from "William Allen Simpson" at Jan 9, 95 05:06:25 pm
Reply-To: uri@watson.ibm.com

William Allen Simpson says:
> I expect to run the code on Z80 equivalents.
> One of my current contracts involves 186s.  Expect tens of millions.
> The 386 just isn't available for embedded ASICs yet.

Well, repeating Hugo's question: OK, MD5 is slow on these oldies.
How about RSA? How about DH? If you're concerned about MD5, what
performance do you expect from exponentiation?

> So, there is no improvement.  Let's just stick to the cheap Foturis
> exchange, thanks anyway.

I'm not sure even Foturis is cheap enough for these.
[Next you'll want IPSP to run on your player :-]
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Regards,
Uri         uri@watson.ibm.com      N2RIU
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