---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:35:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us> To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com Subject: chip fabs gearing up for AES spotted this article at EE-Times: Encryption cores ramp for pervasive security By Patrick Mannion EE Times (08/09/01, 6:36 p.m. EST) MANHASSET, N.Y. while looking at another article (as noted in Slashdot) in the same issue about Rice Univ. undergrad Adam Stubblefield breaking WEP while interning at AT&T Labs. AES in the chips: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010809S0046 couple of quotes: With subtle distinctions, intellectual-property (IP) core vendors are readying implementations of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) security algorithm. The vendors, established and startup, are banking on applications from miniature wireless devices to massively parallel Web servers to support the rapid and pervasive deployment of encryption-enabled devices and systems. The plethora of available AES solutions "is not particularly surprising," said Duncan Kitchin, product architect in the wireless LAN operation at Intel Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.). "After all, the whole point of choosing AES was that it was pretty efficient in software, and easily implementable in hardware," he said. "It's perfectly possible - it's just a matter of doing it." AES - which uses the Rijndael algorithm - was chosen by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to replace the highly popular but less-efficient data encryption standard (DES). It's the efficiency of AES and its stronger encryption overall that makes it attractive across a wide swath of applications. the other article - Adam Stubblefield breaks WEP: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010808S0042 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com