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

[Robert Withers]

Ron, I don't believe the DESPlugin is part of VMMaker.  It is part of  
our DES package and it is confused about it's superclass.   Steps to  
get the DESPlugin into an image with VMMaker:

1) take 3.7 image, which has VMMaker loaded.
2) load Cryptography package from SqueakMap (no Monticello in 3.7)
3) respecify the superclass of DESPlugin to be InterpreterProxy.
4) run VMMaker and generate plugin

The 3.8/3.9 image has no VMMaker in it and the VMMaker on SqueakMap  
is in an inconsistent state.

I hope this helps,
Robert

On Oct 12, 2006, at 6:52 AM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

> http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=5228 :
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> Hans-Martin did some testing and as we expected the performance of  
> pure squeak cryptography is disappointing:
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> Hans-Martin wrote:
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> "Ok, I did some measurements. Results are pretty disappointing.
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> 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.
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> Therefore I think that DES (and maybe some other small cryptographic
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> primitives) should be part of the base VM."
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> 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.
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> Thank you for your help!
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
>
> Cryptography Team Leader
>
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