[Cryptography Team] Include Cryptographic Primitives In VM's - DESPlugin

[Ron Teitelbaum]

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

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