Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> writes:
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/27/chip_crypto_cracked/
That's a really, really misleading tagline. They've successfully attacked the
bitstream encryption for Xilinx FPGAs, and while some of those are used by the
military, they're also used in vast numbers of other things. In addition
recovering the bitstream doesn't help you break any crypto the military may
have implemented in the FPGA.
I guess "Tamagotchi encryption cracked"[0] doesn't make as good a headline.
Peter.
[0] Yeah, I know, technically they use an ASIC not an FPGA. Insert the name
of some no-consequence FPGA-using toy here.
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