Re: Using sound cards to accelerate RSA?

[Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>]

>Somebody mentioned the possibility of using the a/d stage of a sound card
>as a source of random bits, and that brought a thought back to mind:
>given that a lot of sound cards are now shipping with DSP chips on board,
>has anyone written any code that uses the cards DSP to accelerate RSA
>processing?

But most sound cards still don't have DSP chips. And modern general
purpose CPUs are beginning to give them such a good run for their money
that I wonder whether DSPs will ever become widespread.

I'd stick with running RSA on the main CPU for now.

Phil