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Message-ID: <20190516212847.GA28771@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 23:28:47 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Alternative FPGA?
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 03:46:24PM -0500, David Sutherland wrote:
> Will the existing ZTEX 1.15y FPGA code work with any of the newer ZTEX
> boards automatically?
No.
> Apingis, are you interested in trying a newer FPGA?
Since we discussed this privately, I can answer this on behalf of our
team: yes, we're interested, but this is a lot of effort. Funding of
such efforts at a commercial level would help. As volunteers and using
our own funds, we might proceed to target newer hardware only if it
seems very lucrative in some way(s) to do so - such as results way
better than what we already have - and even then it's difficult. Just
to support more boards, no.
If your company or you personally, if you got rich on Bitcoin or such,
are in a position to fund a project to support VCU1525/BCU1525 boards
and Amazon AWS F1 instances, let us know. This idea has been on hold
for a long while now.
> Is anyone else experimenting with other FPGAs?
I assume you mean for password cracking. I am not aware of other
current efforts. (There have been some past efforts.)
> The ZTEX 1.15y sounded really interesting but it does seem very difficult
> to find nowadays.
That's true, although I'm puzzled as to where all those boards went.
Maybe some can still be obtained by asking in the right places.
Alexander
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