Re: Security Gateways

[Stephen Bailey <steph@cs.uchicago.edu>]

Venkat,

> it gives 3Gbps processing for DES

Thanks for the link.

Forgive my potential ignorance, but I'm not sure this number is
meaningful.  They say it would be problematic to adapt their fast mode
implementation to CBC, which is what IPSec requires.  The slow mode
variant, which they say is easily adaptable to CBE runs at 130
Mbits/s.  Furthermore, they admit that they don't even have a story on
fast 3DES/CBC, which what I thought was de rigeur these days.

Hopefully, somebody will correct any of misunderstanding I might have
in this regard.

Thanks,
  Steph