SHA1 broken?

[Tyler Durden]

Well, maybe I misunderstand your statement here, but in Telecom most heavy 
iron has plenty of FPGAs, and as far as I understand it, they more or less 
have to.

-TD

>From: "Riad S. Wahby" <rsw at jfet.org>
>To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net>
>Subject: Re: SHA1 broken?
>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:57:50 -0600
>
>Thomas Shaddack <shaddack at ns.arachne.cz> wrote:
> > There are FPGAs with on-chip RISC CPU cores, allowing reaping the 
>benefits
> > of both architectures in a single chip.
>
>FPGAs are mostly useful for prototyping.  Once you've decided on a
>design, there's no point in realizing it in a reprogrammable
>environment.  Synthesize it, time it carefully, and run it as fast as
>your process allows.
>
>TSMC 0.13u just ain't that pricey any more.
>
>--
>Riad S. Wahby
>rsw at jfet.org