[Cryptography] [FORGED] Attackers will always win, and it's getting worse!

[Peter Gutmann]

Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:

>It's interesting that the NSA has historically concentrated on hardware 
>implementations of complete cryptosystems. 

I don't know whether using an FPGA can strictly be described as "hardware" any
more.  

Programmable crypto hardware does have the significant advantage that the 
crypto device is non-sensitive until the algorithm is loaded into it, and one
piece of hardware can do many jobs.

Peter.