3/29 What percentage of CPU cycles and RAM on an average computer are spent
on security and privacy these days (anti-virus, anti-spyware, SSL, VPN,
pop-up blocker, encrypted FS, etc.)? Is the percentage going up?
\_ Sounds like a good research project to me.
\_ no, sounds like a good ENGINEERING project to me. There is a lot
of integration, tests, evaluations to be done. It's a lot of
work but I just don't see much theory and academics involved.
\_ No, sounds like a research project that requires some
engineering. Moron.
\_ I'd guess it's fairly small, and growing in terms of cycles per
second per machine, but declining as a % of total CPU power.
\_ Take a refresher look at the slides from 61C where they plot the
growth rates for memory and cpu speed over time and the answer
becomes self-evident. Hint: they're exponential. -dans
\_ and spyware. i'm assuming you don't run Windows.
\_ Is there a similar graph for the number of virus patterns out
there?
\_ No, but I can guarantee you it is sub-exponential. There are
only a handful of apps that can suck arbitrary amounts of
CPU/RAM, e.g. games, rendering, scientific computing. -dans
\_ Also depends on things like whether there's a crypto accelerator
card in it. If you come up with anything, please let me know, as
I'm actually pretty interested in this. -John |
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