At 12:41 AM 7/23/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:

Not that I think that such a dedicated chip necessarily exists; chances are good that there isn't all that much demand for a 12-megabyte/second encryptor.

If you are running a 600 megabit/sec ATM/SONET link and want to encrypt it, you are in the market for a 75 megabyte/sec encryptor. As for dedicated crackers, according to my notes from the SAFE forum at Stanford, Eric Thompson said his company made FPGAs for cracking DES. A seven day crack for $1 million. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Cave ab homine unius lebri | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | [Beware the man of one | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | book] - Anonymous Latin | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA