on FPGAs vs ASICs

Riad S. Wahby rsw at jfet.org
Sat Mar 19 19:46:22 PST 2005


"Major Variola (ret)" <mv at cdc.gov> wrote:
> Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this.

Of course I do.  I'm saying that for our purposes (a dedicated
hashcracker) we want an ASIC.  Whether we can afford one or not is
another question (obviously if we can't, we buy the best FPGA we can).

...or are we no longer assuming an adversary with unlimited resources?

-- 
Riad S. Wahby
rsw at jfet.org





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