>With an investment of as little as $400 on some basic FPGA equipment,
>this problem can be solved at a much greater speed. With a bigger
>FPGA, or use of ASIC, the speed with which keys can be found by brute
>force is frightening, and when considered on a per-key basis,
>frighteningly cheap (as low as $0.08 per key).
What kind of hardware are you talking about? I have tried to find information
on the VM007 chip on page 279? of applied cryptography unsuccessfully. I wanted
to attempt to implement something in hardware for the hell of it.
Jason Gmoser
noggle@isoc.net