On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Jack Oswald wrote:
I am also aware of a company called VASCO that bought a crypto chip maker in Belgium which was apparently OK too.
At this point a brief overview of modexp accelerators might be in order: o the Belgian chips I've seen are too slow. o the Rainbow board is OK, but non-exportable. o the Chrysalis PCMCIA card has the same performance as the Rainbow board at half the price. Also non-exportable. o the Ncipher SCSI based accelearator screams, but it a bit pricey. UK product. Exportable (?) http://www.ncipher.com/ o a high-end Alpha also performs rather nicely, according to some benchmarks Eric Young once posted. -- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"