C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support
Lucky Green
shamrock at cypherpunks.to
Wed Oct 22 23:04:18 PDT 2003
Peter wrote:
> In case anyone's interested, there's a cpu die photo at
> http://www.sandpile.org/impl/pics/centaur/c5xl/die_013_c5p.jpg
showing the amount of real estate consumed by the crypto functions
(it's the bottom centre, a bit hard to read the label).
I fail to understand why VIA bothered adding AES support into the CPU.
When was AES last the bottleneck on a general-purpose CPU? The
bottleneck tends to be modular exponentiations, yet VIA failed to
include a modular exponentiation engine. Strange.
--Lucky Green
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