> "Very little", and "no". They're basically custom
Bitcoin-mining
> ASICs, I looked at one a while back for use in password-cracking
>> and they're really not suited for it at all, you load a vector in
>> and say "go" but since they're quite I/O-limited you can't easily
>> adapt them for hash-breaking. As for RNG use, they're entirely
>> deterministic, how would you use them as an RNG source?
>> at best you *might* be able twist it into a DRBG that would still
>> need to be seeded (and regularly reseeded) with robust entropy.
>>
>> these ASICs really are single purpose; they're useless for anything
>> else.
>Thanks Peter, Coderman-
>Kinda what I suspected seeing as they are *Application Specific* IC's
>after all... Wishful thinking more than anything knowing that they are
>now saturating their market and loosing value rapidly.
>Cheers!
>DN