Re: [s-t] needle in haystack digest #3 (fwd from Nick.Barnes@pobox.com)

At 08:22 PM 11/6/03 -0800, Tim May wrote:

I heard ten years ago that the National Semi fab on-site was a lowly 2-micron fab. Which was enough for keying material.

And rad-hard circuits for their buddies at the NRO. And 2 mics is fine for certain esoteric processes. Got GaAs? That's done on 6" wafers. Of import to those who like listening to the aether. But if you want a suitcase DESCracker (stuffing Sun chassis is so passe, though it was a fine recycling program and probably emptied some space in JG's garage :-) you use 90 nm FPGAs. NSA folks probably wear GSM and WEP crackers as cufflinks. Maybe they have competitions to see who can program those crackers on their kids' gameboys.