[Cryptech Tech] NaCL in hardware

Basil Dolmatov dol at reedcat.net
Tue Sep 29 05:19:50 UTC 2015



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> 28 сент. 2015 г., в 23:28, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> написал(а):
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Pavel Shatov wrote:
>> in nowadays FPGAs we have dedicated hardware multipliers, that come
>> at no cost. Yes, they are vendor-specific, and I obviously cannot
>> decide for the whole team, whether we can use them or not. But my
>> personal view is that as long as we clearly document, that in this 
>> particular module we are using vendor-specific multiplier, and
>> provide generic replacement module for simulation, it's OK.
> 
> I don't think it's OK at all to restrict the usefulness of cryptech
> modules so severely, making it impossible to use them with any other
> hardware than one particular hardware from one particular vendor.
> 
>>  
> but I strongly
> disagree with restricting cryptech modules to any single vendor, even
> if it's a vendor I happen to like.
Since no one proposed that, you can stay calm and happy ;) 
> 
> 
> //Peter
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