[1147] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Better DES challenge update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bradley)
Wed Jul 2 16:18:53 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 17:02:25 +0000 ( )
From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
To: Andreas Bogk <andreas@artcom.de>
cc: Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>, Eli Brandt <eli@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu>,
cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <y8a3eq0rqj7.fsf@horten.artcom.de>
> BTW: Given that such a FPGA machine exists, does anyone have a good
> idea what one could do with it besides cracking DES?
Yes,
I have to admit ignorance in terms of the uses of FPGAs in other
cryptanalytic tasks: Would an FPGA be significantly faster than general
purpose hardware for a factoring attack? How about finding discrete logs?
If FPGAs can factor very quickly, what factoring algorithm is best? EC,
QS, GNFS etc...????
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