[4834] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
In theory (Was: ICSA...weak crypto)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn Larsson)
Wed Jun 2 22:27:19 1999
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 21:05:52 +0200
From: Glenn Larsson <glenn.larsson@datortek.vasteras.se>
Reply-To: glenn.larsson@datortek.vasteras.se
To: cryptography@c2.net
Hi.
I recently had the privilege of working with a hardware engineer. Beeing
crypto intrested, i speculated about a parallel
FPGA/ASIC implementation of a {Enter-crypto-system-here} code cracker.
It turned out that, in theory, an $80 buck chip (In my country) could
easilly be mass-manufactored, really cheap. I could
have done the crypto part free, and he could have done the programming
for free and we could get a bankloan or perhaps
even some company/government backing and voila - homemade codebreaker.
The memory problem (data & dictionary) could be solved by a neural
network over a fast LAN with memory storage
beeing distributed, which COULD be fast enough depending on the
implementation.
Just my 0.02 bar of gold pressed Latinum.
Regards,
Glenn Larsson
Sweden
come.to/insl
As always, My employer doesn't share my Viev/knowledge or anything else.
