Re: Java Source For Asymmetric Key Ciphers

Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis@gmail.com> writes:
> > By time NTRU is available for the public domain it'll be 2015 or so.
> > At which point "smart cards" will be ARM platforms [or other 32-bit
> > platform] and ECC with prime curves will be more than just fine in
> > software, etc...
>
> Nah, smart cards will never be more powerful than they need to be. In
> 2015 there might be 32-bit smart cards that cost the same 2 or 3
> dollars that today's 8-bit smart cards cost, but there will also be
> 8-bit cards like today's, except they will cost 10 cents instead of 2
> or 3 dollars. If you're shipping millions (maybe even billions) of
> cards, a public key algorithm that can run on a 10 cent card instead
> of needing a 2 or 3 dollar card is extremely worthwhile.

Provided they're still making them. It may cost 3 cents to make an
8051 but if nobody will license/and/or/use them ... what's the point?

Also I imagine in the next 9 years we'll see more capable RISC
processors ending up on opencores.org. There are already a few there
now.

So you can use the DW8051 that comes with your cell library ... or
fetch a 32-bit 5-stage MIPS/Mhz processor off opencores and use it for
free as well... etc. ARM processors are already highly area efficient
and a hell of a lot more efficient in terms of mips/watt than an 8051
or 6805. I mean you'd have to clock an ARM down around <100Khz to
match the throughput of operations of an 8051.

Point is in the next decade things will only get better. Making the
"desire" to use lower efficiency 8-bit micros even lower and lower.

Tom
Received on Tue Jan 17 16:51:02 2006