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From: "Ron Teitelbaum" Ron@USMedRec.com Date: October 16, 2006 9:24:00 PM GMT+02:00 To: "'Adrian Lienhard'" alienhard@netstyle.ch Subject: FW: Include Cryptographic Primitives In VM's - DESPlugin Reply-To: Ron@USMedRec.com
Adrian,
Could you forward this for me to vm-dev, I tried but it was rejected. I signed up again but didn’t get a response from mailman.
All,
When I originally sent this email I believed that DESPlugin was part of VMMaker, I was wrong. I uploaded two files to mantis one that is incorrect but I couldn’t delete it, and a correct version which should be considered the notes should make it clear.
Please let me know if you need anything else, or have any questions. Thanks for your help!
Ron Teitelbaum
From: Ron Teitelbaum [mailto:Ron@USMedRec.com] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:52 AM To: 'vm-dev@discuss.squeakfoundation.org'; 'Cryptography Team Development List' Subject: Include Cryptographic Primitives In VM's - DESPlugin
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