22 Apr
1993
22 Apr
'93
8:08 p.m.
"Haywood J. Blowme" says: [Lots about some J. Random Companies encryption chip] All fine and well, but since we have IDEA already, why should we want it? For virtually all applicatons these days other than fully encrypting network traffic, software is fine. DES implementations in software can handle 1.5 Mbit/s on reasonable machines. Beyond that, if we need hardware, why not use one of the currently publically known algorithms like DES or IDEA, or a combination of them? Why use some other companies algorithm? Perry