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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 18:01:00 -0000 (UTC)
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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.