Re: Security for embedded device

From: David Wagner (daw_at_taverner.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:08:01 +0000 (UTC)

Joris Dobbelsteen wrote:
>Does anyone know a simple cipher for a 8-bit processor with only a few bytes
>of available memory, doing its job without about 1K cycles?

Assuming you have some ROM: have you looked at Skipjack? DES? AES?
Your performance goals sound quite aggressive. Almost certainly you
will need at least 8 bytes of memory, merely to hold the key.

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