1994-08-18 - Re: NSA Spy Machine and DES

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: “Ian Farquhar” <ianf@simple.sydney.sgi.com>
Message Hash: 94d24497a369c0c23c99123ef814a72c31e3fb3020050a16ec6a267f612779f2
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UTC Datetime: 1994-08-18 22:42:52 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 18 Aug 94 15:42:52 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 94 15:42:52 PDT
To: "Ian Farquhar" <ianf@simple.sydney.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: NSA Spy Machine and DES
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"Ian Farquhar" says:
> Actually, I would be surprised if the "SIMD" processors were not a huge
> array of reprogrammable FPGA's, quite possibly Xilinx's.

Since SIMD implies array processing, this makes much more sense than
general purpose 64 bit processors.

Perry Metzger

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