2048 or 4096 for new keys? aka defaults vs. Debian

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Sun Oct 27 19:47:31 CET 2013


On 27/10/13 19:09, Filip M. Nowak wrote:
> 1) Specialized microcontrollers with crypto capabilities are available
> and used for years now (AVR XMEGA which is 8 bit for example)

AVR XMEGA has DES and AES, no asymmetric acceleration. Also, I think the market
of XMEGA is phenomenally tiny compared to regular AVR/PIC (personally, I would
go to ARM if megaAVR isn't enough).

Are there 8-bit microcontrollers with RSA acceleration?

HTH,

Peter.

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