[Cryptech Tech] goals / use cases

[Peter Gutmann]

Leif Johansson <leifj at sunet.se> writes:
>On 01/28/2015 09:27 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> In terms of a "roomy and fast CPU", the TI CPU that was mentioned earlier
>> already has onboard crypto support for AES and SHA (and other stuff as well),
>> if it's supported by the host CPU is there any need to do the same in an FPGA?
>> By leaving the host to do bulk encryption operations you could save space in
>> the FPGA for things the host can't do natively.
>
>Do we have source for those functions for review?

No, but why would you need that?  Both SHA-1 and AES are totally
deterministic, even if the implementation came straight from the NSA, what
could they do with it?

Peter.