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I was thinking it would be a good fit for crypto. New algorithms could be implemented with better-than-software performance, constant-time algorithms could be e
by magicalhippo 3y ago
I was thinking it would be a good fit for crypto. New algorithms could be implemented with better-than-software performance, constant-time algorithms could be ensured etc.
- adrian_b 3y agoTrue. For instance, SHA-3 is quite slow on x86 CPUs, which, unlike the recent ARM CPUs, do not have any hardware instructions to accelerate it. If there had been an included FPGA, it would have been easy to implement a very fast SHA-3, as its hardware cost is very low.