Is there any more "modern" DES hardware that's "commonly" available?
How much do these things cost? Anyone build any nice cheap SCSI >
attached peripheral that you can shoot data at and get it back >
encrypted or decrypted? Put a nice noise diode in it for a source for >
cryptographic quality random numbers, and we'd really be cooking.
My company will announce on 6/21 a DES/DSS/RSA encryption board that
will fit in a PC and meet FIPS 140-1 class 3 for under $600 (Quan 1).
It comes with an API which will do PEM with all the private components
of the public keys protected inside it. Other manufacturers have
cheaper ones w/o the tamper-resistances of FIPS 140 and more expensive
ones with a range of added features. We also have an SNA PU2 encryptor
that will operate at T1/E1 rates and will soon announce one that will do
in excess of 1 megabytes/sec using a rather common encryption chip.
Much faster chips (and boards that use them) are available from CEI in
Germany and VLSI here in AZ. Note that the CEI chip is a gate array
from Japan that once it arrives in the US cannot be shipped back to its
country of origin.
Peace Tom Jones - ViaCrypt