Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/27/chip_crypto_cracked/

That's a really, really misleading tagline. They've successfully attacked the bitstream encryption for Xilinx FPGAs, and while some of those are used by the military, they're also used in vast numbers of other things. In addition recovering the bitstream doesn't help you break any crypto the military may have implemented in the FPGA. I guess "Tamagotchi encryption cracked"[0] doesn't make as good a headline. Peter. [0] Yeah, I know, technically they use an ASIC not an FPGA. Insert the name of some no-consequence FPGA-using toy here. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE