Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond

Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> schrieb:

Adding encryption (which of the dozen standard symmetric and asymmetric
cipher algoritnms?)

At the moment, AES.

to a hardware device does increase complexity, and
thus cost at the expense of extensibility (new algorithms come along
periodically).  The cost of verifying crypto is a bit higher as it is
very important to get correct when baking into gates.

Seems to be fairly common these days, looking at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set .

It appears that one round of AES fits fairly well into one cycle.