Courtesy of Amir at Reconfigurable Computing...
Co-CPUS, and FPGAs in particular, are excellent crypto crackers. When I started thinking about using a co-processor as a security solution, I never thought of these applications. Crypto cracking is one of the few examples I know where the co_CPU is overwhlemingly faster than the x86 core. It helps that crypto cracking is really *just* an algorithm, while most of us use more complex applications.
It's worth reading Amir's summary and especially the video from Shmoo.
PS: I was off the conference circuit for a while. For those of you who know my personal life, it was an excellent extended summer vacation...
