Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >A quick google-look at ASICs showed a number in the range of 300K-20M gates, >so hash-trees could probably get speedups of up to 20-100x if you can keep >from becoming input-speed-bound. The 300K chips were about $6, 5M at $50 and >350MHz, which is somewhat faster than the Skein team estimate, and some of >the denser chips didn't mention price but were starting to use 45nm >technology.
I don't know about ASICs but for FPGAs you can pay in the thousands of dollars for a single high-end device (forget Xeons, that's the market to be in), so you don't want to set your sights too high. My guess is they were designing down to a price rather than up to a performance figure. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]