I was way off in a lot of numbers, stale memory does that to a person.
But it still seems a small price to pay for the amount of money some
spammers are supposedly making, no?
(To anyone concerned, you don't have to CC to me, I'm subscribed
to this list and have been for a long time.)
Brad Knowles wrote:
At 2:33 PM -0400 2003/09/15, Paul Tenny wrote:
FPGA's however are not excessively hard to design nor are they
enormously
expensive to fabricate. My memory is quite rusty on this but I seem to
recall a non-profit group wanted to attack the distributed.net problem
from a new angle. Rather than using a large number of commodity PC's,
they had something like 10-15 FPGA's (field programmable gate-array's,
task-specific processors that can be reprogrammed on the fly) with very
specific instruction sets on a special PCB that connected directly to a
normal PC (I don't recall how).
EFF's "Deep Crack" was based on FPGAs, and was used to brute-force
56-bit DES encryption in less than 3 days. They used similar hard to
help the distributed.net effort. See <http://www.eff.org/descracker/>
for more info.
_______________________________________________
Asrg mailing list
Asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg