On Jun 10, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Mark Hanchey wrote:

> Some of the FPGA have security features

It was FPGA security features recently that were recently cracked, BTW.
Basically, it seems that certain features were protected by locking them un=
der a key (AES128 - nothing to sneeze at.)  While this potentially means th=
at the manufacturer had a back door to the commands, the big problem turned=
 out to be that keys were "pretty easy" to extract from the chip via "side-=
channel attacks."

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese-backdoor-in.ht=
ml

BillW


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