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

[Robert Withers]

Ron,

That fileout has ProtoObject as the superclass, that needs to be  
replaced with InterpreterPlugin, I believe is the correct superclass  
- not InterpreterProxy.

Rob

On Oct 12, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

> Rob,
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> Thank you for that clarification.  I thought that it was already  
> included.
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> Tim,
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> Since it is not part of the VMMaker can we have it included?  What  
> specifically do you need from us to make this happen?  Does the  
> plug-in need to be pulled out of our code and submitted  
> separately?  I attached an .st file of the plug-in.
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> Ron
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> From: Robert Withers [mailto:reefedjib at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:50 AM
> To: Ron at USMedRec.com; Cryptography Team Development List
> Cc: vm-dev at discuss.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [Cryptography Team] Include Cryptographic Primitives  
> In VM's - DESPlugin
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> 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:
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> 1) take 3.7 image, which has VMMaker loaded.
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> 2) load Cryptography package from SqueakMap (no Monticello in 3.7)
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> 3) respecify the superclass of DESPlugin to be InterpreterProxy.
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> 4) run VMMaker and generate plugin
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> The 3.8/3.9 image has no VMMaker in it and the VMMaker on SqueakMap  
> is in an inconsistent state.
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> I hope this helps,
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> Robert
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> On Oct 12, 2006, at 6:52 AM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
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> 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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