The Early Days of RSA -- History and Lessons Ronald L. Rivest MIT ...
The Early Days of RSA -- History and Lessons Ronald L. Rivest MIT ...
The Early Days of RSA -- History and Lessons Ronald L. Rivest MIT ...
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Moore’s Law matters.<br />
u Time to do <strong>RSA</strong> decryption on a 1 MIPS<br />
VAX was around 30 seconds (VERY SLOW…)<br />
u IBM PC debuts in 1981<br />
u Still, we worked on efficient special-purpose<br />
implementation (e.g. special circuit board,<br />
<strong>and</strong> then the “<strong>RSA</strong> chip”, which did <strong>RSA</strong> in<br />
0.4 seconds) to prove practicality <strong>of</strong> <strong>RSA</strong>.<br />
u Moore’s Law to the rescue---s<strong>of</strong>tware now<br />
runs 2000x faster…<br />
u Now s<strong>of</strong>tware <strong>and</strong> the Web rule…
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