Re: MACs need to pay attention to small-packet performance

From: D. J. Bernstein (djb_at_cr.yp.to)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:36:41 +0000 (UTC)

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Some of us want to use AES to encrypt file systems, not networks.

So you're trying to limit the damage when you lose your laptop? And
you're reading 1 gigabit per second continuously from your laptop disk?
And this ludicrously uncommon situation is a reasonable benchmark for
secret-key cryptography---whereas it's unreasonable to consider people
trying to protect themselves against 1Gbps denial-of-service attacks?

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

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