SHA1 broken?

[Tyler Durden]

Well, what would you call a network processor? An FPGA or a CPU? I think of 
it as somewhere in between, given credence to the FPGA statement below.

-TD

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv at cdc.gov>
>To: "cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net>
>Subject: Re: SHA1 broken?
>Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 06:51:24 -0800
>
>At 09:23 PM 2/19/05 +0000, Dave Howe wrote:
> >   I am unaware of any massive improvement (certainly to the scale of
> >the comparable improvement in CPUs) in FPGAs, and the ones I looked at
>a
> >a few days ago while researching this question seemed to have pretty
>
>FPGAs scale with tech the same as CPUs, however CPUs contain a lot
>more design info (complexity).  But FPGAs since '98 have gotten
>denser (Moore's observation), pioneering Cu wiring, smaller features,
>etc.