[Cryptech Core] draft CrypTech end of year report for 2019

[Phil Roberts]

Thanks Paul! Will incorporate.


On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 9:04 PM, Paul Selkirk wrote:
> I'd split the first paragraph, and fill out the sentence fragment.
> Second sentence of the first paragraph is new, everything else is
> reformatting:
> 
> Progress on the CrypTech project has slowed considerably due to a
> serious slow-down in funding. However, we were still able to implement
> several FPGA enhancements, which added up to a more than 10x improvement
> in RSA signing speed.
> 
> At the end of 2018, CrypTech wrapped up its time under the
> administrative umbrella of NorduNet and SUnet and moved to the Commons
> Conservancy/NLnet Foundation. 2019 was CrypTech’s first full year as
> part of the Commons Conservancy.
> 
> Although CrypTech’s first commercial user, Diamond Key Security, NFP,
> shipped prototypes in 2018 and was well on its way to completing a
> commercial offering, it was unable to get sufficient funding to ship a
> supported product and ended up closing its doors. Acquiring funding
> remains the critical issue for CrypTech to continue and advance.
> 
> 
> Under Current Technical Status, add something like the following:
> 
> Significant developments in the FPGA include:
> 
> - Synchronous clocking for the FMC bus and the FPGA cores eliminates
> polling on the bus, and simplifies the design.
> 
> - A new ModExpNG ("next generation") core moves most of the RSA signing
> operation to hardware.
> 
> - A new keywrap core moves most of the AES key wrap/unwrap operation to
> hardware.
> 
> Taken together, these take RSA signing speed from less than 8 sig/sec
> with a 2048-bit key, to more than 87 sig/sec. Furthermore, a dedicated
> RSA signer (without ECDSA support) can push this past 116 sig/sec. We
> believe that further gains are possible without too much effort.
> 
> paul
> 
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