Nikkei English News, 24 September 1996. Mitsubishi unveils Japan's fastest encryption chip Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said it has developed an LSI that can encrypt data at a speed of 450 megabits per second, which is four times faster than any other encryption chip developed in Japan and brings domestic technology in line with DES, the U.S.-developed encryption system that has become the standard in the U.S. and Europe. Because the chip performs the same as DES, Mitsubishi will promote it as a domestic product for encryption needs in Japan, with an eye on the growing market for corporate intranets and high-speed data communications. It said it will prepare for volume production during this year. The company fabricated the chip as a gate array using a 0.5 micron CMOS process and its own proprietary encryption algorithm MISTY. Operating at a maximum input/output speed of 40 megahertz, the chip can handle 32 bits per clock cycle. [End]