How much off-the-shelf crypto IP is available to be plopped on a crypto net
processor? Are their stego detection/cracking Development kits and so on?
-TD
From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FW:
At 05:44 PM 3/20/05 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
>What I suspect is that there's already some crypto net processors out
there,
>though they may be classified, or the commercial equivalent (ie, I
assume
>there are 'classified' catalogs from companies like General Dynamics
that
>normal clients never se
>From Major Variola (ret)
> Tyler, Riad, etc:
> FPGAs are used in telecom because the volumes do not support an ASIC
> run.
> Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this. He does understand that an ASIC
> is more
> efficient because its gates are used only for 1 computation,
> rather than
> most
> (
Tyler, Riad, etc:
FPGAs are used in telecom because the volumes do not support an ASIC
run.
Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this. He does understand that an ASIC
is more
efficient because its gates are used only for 1 computation, rather than
most
(FPGA) gates being used for reconfigurability ---
FPGAs probably make more sense for routers,
because you want the ability to change the firmware more often,
and a router has a bunch of other parts as well,
and realistically, cypher-cracking is not an
economically viable activity for most people,
so the cost-benefit tradeoffs are a bit twisted.
Th
At 11:11 AM 3/19/2005, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
---useful if you can't afford an ASIC run (a million bucks a mask...)
..
For someone making 10,000 routers, you use FPGAs.
DESCrack was solving a problem for which the x86 is not very efficient
at computing --all the sub-byte bit-diddling--
and har
"Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this.
Of course I do. I'm saying that for our purposes (a dedicated
hashcracker) we want an ASIC. Whether we can afford one or not is
another question (obviously if we can't, we buy the best FPGA we can).
..or ar
