[Vm-dev] Fwd: Include Cryptographic Primitives In VM's - DESPlugin

[Adrian Lienhard]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Ron Teitelbaum" <Ron at USMedRec.com>
> Date: October 16, 2006 9:24:00 PM GMT+02:00
> To: "'Adrian Lienhard'" <alienhard at netstyle.ch>
> Subject: FW: Include Cryptographic Primitives In VM's - DESPlugin
> Reply-To: <Ron at USMedRec.com>
>
> Adrian,
>
> Could you forward this for me to vm-dev, I tried but it was  
> rejected.  I signed up again but didn’t get a response from mailman.
>
>
>
> All,
>
> When I originally sent this email I believed that DESPlugin was  
> part of VMMaker, I was wrong.  I uploaded two files to mantis one  
> that is incorrect but I couldn’t delete it, and a correct version  
> which should be considered the notes should make it clear.
>
> Please let me know if you need anything else, or have any  
> questions.  Thanks for your help!
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
>
>
>
> From: Ron Teitelbaum [mailto:Ron at USMedRec.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:52 AM
> To: 'vm-dev at discuss.squeakfoundation.org'; 'Cryptography Team  
> Development List'
> Subject: Include Cryptographic Primitives In VM's - DESPlugin
>
> http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=5228 :
>
> Hans-Martin did some testing and as we expected the performance of  
> pure squeak cryptography is disappointing:
>
> Hans-Martin wrote:
>
> "Ok, I did some measurements. Results are pretty disappointing.
>
> Squeak on my AMD 3800+ processor encrypts 32 KBytes using 3DES CBC  
> mode in about 8 seconds - unusable for anything but a proof-of- 
> concept.
>
> Therefore I think that DES (and maybe some other small cryptographic
>
> primitives) should be part of the base VM."
>
>
>
> The DESPlugin is already a part of the VMMaker, I am asking the VM  
> group to please include the DESPlugin in the base VM that is  
> distrubuted.  We will be submitting more code and will follow the  
> process of code -> VMMaker -> VM.  If the VM team wants to wait  
> before building a new VM's until other primitives are available,  
> that is fine, but if a build is going to be done anyway for other  
> issues, please include the DESPlugin.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
>
> Cryptography Team Leader
>
>