Re: RC5 with FPGAs

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 06:26:01PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I hope I will have more echoes using the hardware mailing list.
 
Unfortunately, all the lists were offline for the past several weeks. :(

> I'm Guerric Meurice de Dormale and I'm a Ph.D. Student at the
> UCL CryptoGroup (Belgium) under the supervision of Jean-Jacques
> Quisquater.
> One of our Ms.C. Student is currently finishing the implementation the
> RC5 32/12/9 challenge on an FPGA platform. It is a fully pipelined design
> with a throughput of one key search every clock cycle.
> Currently, the engine should goes up to 150M keys/sec on a Xilinx
> VirtexII6000-5 device. In the future, it is planned to use Virtex4LX
> FPGAs with a higher logic density and a higher maximum operating
> frequency (a twofold improvement about the frequency is expected (?)).

That would be outstanding. :)

> It could be very valuable for the work of our student to join the
> distributed.net cracking effort. However, as the communication
> protocol is not available, it is not possible without your support.
> Nevertheless, it seems that people were planning to enable FPGA engine
> within the key search effort (cfr. Hardware mailing list). Does
> someone know if something was done in that area? or if something could be
> done?

Probably the best bet would be for all the relevant parties to sign NDAs
so that we can provide you with the encryption protocol. I'd love to see
a means to talk to FPGA's more genericly, but I'm at a loss for how to
do that without creating some rather serious security issues for us.

Speaking of security, the clients also compute a residual value (a CMC)
that is verified by the master. Ideally, the FPGA would also handle
this, but I'm not sure if it's that simple.
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