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Offline BruceTanner

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SHA-1 / HTTPS on a Z80?
« on: 2018.July.20. 14:47:40 »
For a while now I have been wondering how well a 4MHz Z80 would cope with some modern encryption protocols like those used for HTTPS web sites (ie most web sites these days), so I wrote some SHA-1 encryption code and a test program:

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The .html file for the main page of  EnterpriseForever.com (which is also a HTTPS web site) is around 64k once all the secondary files are included. Based on my SHA-1 code it would take around 15s for a Z80 to decode!

There are more modern and more secure SHA algorithms with longer hash values but they operate in a broadly similar way.

Here is the source code for the SHA-1 algorithm in case anyone ever finds it useful (assembled using sjasm 0.42c). I was able to adjust the official algorithm a bit to avoid copying all the data twice!:

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And here is the source code for the test program which includes the above file (sorry, a bit messy as it was hastily hacked together from another program!)

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Bitcoin mining on a Z80? :mrgreen:

Offline gflorez

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Re: SHA-1 / HTTPS on a Z80?
« Reply #1 on: 2018.July.21. 08:41:10 »
Impressive!

Only 15 seconds to  decode 64KB... Soon it will win Firefox on WINXP....
« Last Edit: 2018.July.21. 10:34:23 by gflorez »

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Re: SHA-1 / HTTPS on a Z80?
« Reply #2 on: 2018.July.21. 10:08:54 »
Amazing! :smt038

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Re: SHA-1 / HTTPS on a Z80?
« Reply #3 on: 2018.July.21. 11:07:23 »
Brilliant!

Nice to see how an 80ies CPU would have struggled with tasks we consider "minor background processing" on modern computers.

Thanks!