Abit's SecureIDE

David Honig dahonig at cox.net
Mon Aug 25 23:02:44 EDT 2003


At 03:55 PM 8/22/03 -0700, bear wrote:
>>"40-bit DES (US Data Encryption Standard) is adequate for general users"
>
>Interesting.  Can these chips be usefully cascaded?

Why would you want to?  You can do a better cipher in an 
FPGA very cheaply.. eg 3DES..

You can cascade horses to pull your carriage faster,
but you'll do better with a gas engine..






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