Motorola Security Chips

Thomas Shaddack shaddack at ns.arachne.cz
Mon Sep 29 21:55:29 PDT 2003


On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
> These seem to be actual chips. Anyone know of companies selling Crypto apps
> for Network processors? If so, which is deemed more secure by
> Cypherpunks...software apps on network processors or outboard chips? (Am I
> correct in assuming that a crypto app on a network processor is not any
> easier to view or examine that a crypto ASIC?)

You don't have to rely on a proprietary, potentially compromised solution;
there are open-source FPGA cores in the wild that can do lots of things
for you. Eg, <http://www.opencores.org/projects/>. With a bit of luck,
situation on the free cores market will gradually improve further.





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