Re: Son of IKE: A proposal for moving forward

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:21:30PM -0700, Dan Harkins wrote:
> 
> The handwaving is not over Moore's Law, it's over some vague
> "cheap wireless widget on the horizon". In fact, it's almost beyond
> handwaving to outright fearmongering. Both of the protocols under
> consideration are less heavy-weight than IKE and IKE has been
> implemented on PDAs and cellphones. 
> 

Michael,

If you could give us some specifics about what sorts of CPU/memory
resources you think these "cheap wireless widgets" will have, that
would be very helpful.  Given that StrongARM and PPC processors are
regularly used in embedded devices, and very sophisticated systems
have been implemented on embedded devices (including full Linux
systems and full IKEv1 systems --- heck, IBM demonstrated Linux
running on a wristwatch!  :-), without some quantifiable limitations 
of these future wireless devices, it's very hard to move forward.

						- Ted