NODE 9e4c4a8dUsing sound cards to accelerate RSA?
Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>Wed, 27 Sep 95 07:38:02 PDT
Somebody mentioned the possibility of using the a/d stage of a sound card
as a source of random bits, and that brought a thought back to mind:
given that a lot of sound cards are now shipping with DSP chips on board,
has anyone written any code that uses the cards DSP to accelerate RSA
processing?
Maybe there's a mass market market for a crypto-blaster- an RNG, 3 or 6
DES chips, and a DSP. It would make for a killer linux based SHTTP server...
Simon