Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

[John Case]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, coderman wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:10 PM, John Case <case at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> How does the on-chip encryption feature set of the i7 compare to the very
>> latest sparc processors and their on-chip encryption features ?
>
> the latest i5 / i7 with AES-NI can accelerate ... AES.
>
> the SPARC T2/T3 can accelerate:
> - AES (ECB, CBC, CTR, CCM, CGM, CFB modes)
> - RSA, DSA, DH
> - Elliptic Curve (ECDH, ECDSA, including key generation)
> - MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
> - Hardware entropy source
>
> not much of a comparison, really.


That's what I thought...

So, would a sparc T3 be an "interesting" platform upon which to run 
bitcoin ?  Or are the fermi based GPUs still orders of magnitude faster ?
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