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Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Sun, 24 Feb 2002 05:09:27 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Dave Chen wrote:
> > I was just thinking, would the RCX be able to implement a PGP or RSA
> > type algorithm within it's tiny memory footprint given it's
> > processing power?
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> I don't think there is enough room for the WHOLE PGP package in the
> RCX, perhaps just a single cipher, RSA key exchange and a single hash
> method. Does anyone know off hand if any of these features require
> floating point? You could probably substitute for an algorithm that
> doesn't.
IIRC, the algorithm doesn't need floating point ops, only very very
large primes.
> Also, I doubt if our poky old RCX could generate new keys in a
> reasonable amount of time, so they'd probably have to be imported.
yah - I don't think the RCX will have a good generator of random
numbers.
cool idea, I'd be interested to see if it works :)
Dan
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| (...) Even if it needed FP, legOS supports that. (...) Well, maybe. Maybe not. legOS has a random() function, right? Once the TCP/IP patch is stable, why not use an RCX as an echo server with built in en/decryption? You could just telnet to it, type (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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| Looked at some of the source code involved. Have a look at the "Gnu Privacy Guard" variant's source at: (URL) I was just thinking, would the RCX be able to implement a PGP or RSA (...) I don't think there is enough room for the WHOLE PGP package in (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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