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Old offer on DES and FPGA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Fri Feb 27 13:08:03 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:38:27 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
While sort thru old e-mail, I came accross the following posting from over
a year ago. Did anyone take him up on it?
>From: Rich Lethin <lethin@ai.mit.edu>
>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 12:21:58 -0500 (EST)
>To: cryptography@c2.net
>Subject: FPGA array
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>I mentioned the recent list interest in FPGA arrays to John Babb, who
>was one of the founders of a company here in Cambridge called "Virtual
>Wires." They sell the FPGA array machines for logic emulation, along
>with the software to map large designs to the arrays. He replied that
>he had one of their machines in the hardware lab here at MIT, and he'd
>be willing to help folks do a DES cracking project on it, as long as
>they'd allow the result (performance, effort, etc.) to be included as
>one of the machine benchmarks in papers he's writing. If you're
>interested, contact him directly. His electronic mail address is
>jbabb@lcs.mit.edu.
>
>Rich
>
