Solving RC5 challenges with hardware - a distributed.net perspective
(2007) 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2007 — Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (27.August.2007)
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- Encryption is the basic means to enforce confidentiality in digital communications. This work explores a hardware design alternative and a cost assessment of an FPGA-based brute force attack against RSA secret-key challenge RC5-72. The aim is to develop an alternative to software-based solutions for distributed.net. Implementation results show that an 80 US$ FPGA can yield a throughput of 145 Mkeys/sec with a power consumption of 10 Watts. This is roughly an order of magnitude faster, cheaper and lower power, when compared with fully dedicated general purpose computers.
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De Dormale, G. M., Quisquater, J.-J., & Bass, J. (2007). Solving RC5 challenges with hardware - a distributed.net perspective. 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic andApplications, FPL 2007, p. 642-647. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/231187