[Cryptography Team] Re: [ANN] Working SSL In Squeak
Bill Schwab
BSchwab at anest.ufl.edu
Thu Oct 12 05:47:09 UTC 2006
Hans-Martin, Ron,
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> 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.
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Just to clarify, is this a discussion regarding where a plugin or DLL
belongs, or regarding whether we need one at all?
Bill
Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Department of Anesthesiology
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