Tomorrow's Cryptography: Parallel Computation via Multiple Processors, Vector Processing, and Multi-Cored Chips
Eric C. Seidel, Joseph N. Gregg · 2002
Abstract. This paper summarizes my research during my independent study on cryptography in the fall term of 2002. Here I state the growing need for better cryptography, introduce con-sumer hardware architectures of near future, and identify the growing discrepancy between the hardware on which current cryptographic standards were designed and the hardware the future consumer will be using. I note then the need for a new “modern ” cryptography based on the presence of parallel processing capabilities in forthcoming consumer machines and the lack of support of such capabilities in some current and all legacy crypto algorithms. I list approaches used in past research to parallelize cryptographic algorithms. I then summarize various current algorithms and potential implementation changes to ready them for tomor-row’s machines. I conclude with some brief discussion of newer cryptographic algorithms,