[Cryptography Team] Re: [ANN] Working SSL In Squeak

[Ron Teitelbaum]

I'll post the bug and stir the pot.

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cryptography-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
> Hans-Martin Mosner
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:54 PM
> To: Cryptography Team Development List
> Subject: Re: [Cryptography Team] Re: [ANN] Working SSL In Squeak
> 
> Hans-Martin Mosner schrieb:
> >
> > I did not do any comparison because I did not yet download the DES
> > plugin - just wanted to make this thing work in the unit tests before
> > going to bed :-) I just added a very thin layer (mostly converting from
> > ByteArrays to LargeIntegers and vice versa) to use my old code mostly
> > unchanged. The performance can probably be improved a bit by changing
> > that old code to directly work with ByteArrays.
> >
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Hans-Martin
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