Re: RC5 Challenges cancelled by RSA
"William Halverson" <william-21FpmpCxWG/[email protected]> Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:58:03 +0000
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--===============8606013285954655053== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--=_vm_0011_W2424225255_20628_1180724283" ----=_vm_0011_W2424225255_20628_1180724283 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Maybe these projects would benifit from your work? http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: John L. Bass [mailto:jbass-/[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:33 PM >To: Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] >Subject: [Hardware] RC5 Challenges cancelled by RSA > > >Sadly RSA cancelled the Secret Key Challenges last week without much warning. It >would have been nicer if they would have put an ending date on the challenges sometime >in the next year or two ... maybe like Dec 31 2009 to end the decade. I was actually >looking forward to a different, but promising FPGA attack on RC5 later this year. > >Might be worth asking RSA to reconsider the abrupt termination, and ask for a >reasonable date a year or two out. The program over the years hasn't cost them >much, and created a lot of interest in crypto work as an application area in the >universities world wide. Especially in factoring. > >For those still interested I have been working on cutting octal spartan boards this >next week ... with thanks to Bryan for some review help and suggestions. The board >now has an 8+1 Hypercube configuration with a separate controller FPGA. Onboard power >for about 100W of computation power (about as much as we can cool the Spartan Chips) >with a PCI slot fan and heat sinks. > >The nice part about reconfigurable computing using FPGA's is they are relatively >easily retargeted to other projects. > >Have fun, >John >_______________________________________________ >Hardware mailing list >Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] >http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/hardware > ----=_vm_0011_W2424225255_20628_1180724283 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html>Maybe these projects would benifit from your work?<BR><BR>http://bo= inc.berkeley.edu/<BR><BR>Bill<BR><BR><BR> >-----Original Message-----<= BR> >From: John L. Bass [mailto:jbass-/[email protected]]<BR> >Sent: Wednesda= y, May 30, 2007 12:33 PM<BR> >To: Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected]<BR> &= gt;Subject: [Hardware] RC5 Challenges cancelled by RSA<BR> ><BR> ><= BR> >Sadly RSA cancelled the Secret Key Challenges last week without m= uch warning. It<BR> >would have been nicer if they would have put an e= nding date on the challenges sometime<BR> >in the next year or two ...= maybe like Dec 31 2009 to end the decade. I was actually<BR> >looking= forward to a different, but promising FPGA attack on RC5 later this year= .<BR> ><BR> >Might be worth asking RSA to reconsider the abrupt ter= mination, and ask for a<BR> >reasonable date a year or two out. The pr= ogram over the years hasn't cost them<BR> >much, and created a lot of = interest in crypto work as an application area in the<BR> >universitie= s world wide. Especially in factoring.<BR> ><BR> >For those still i= nterested I have been working on cutting octal spartan boards this<BR> &g= t;next week ... with thanks to Bryan for some review help and suggestions= . The board<BR> >now has an 8+1 Hypercube configuration with a separat= e controller FPGA. Onboard power<BR> >for about 100W of computation po= wer (about as much as we can cool the Spartan Chips)<BR> >with a PCI s= lot fan and heat sinks.<BR> ><BR> >The nice part about reconfigurab= le computing using FPGA's is they are relatively<BR> >easily retargete= d to other projects.<BR> ><BR> >Have fun,<BR> >John<BR> >____= ___________________________________________<BR> >Hardware mailing list= <BR> >Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected]<BR> >http://lists.distributed.= net/mailman/listinfo/hardware<BR> ></html> ----=_vm_0011_W2424225255_20628_1180724283-- --===============8606013285954655053== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Hardware mailing list Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/hardware --===============8606013285954655053==--