Let's not hijack this thread with philosophical or emotional BS and keep it topical, shall we?
Count me in for hardware/software design, testing, and general input on scalability. My background is IT/datacenter management; have already implemented designs with Microchop and Digi microcontrollers. As an aside, you think crypto chips will yield superior results to the $16 Spartan 6's with 45k LEs?
Well the idea is R&D. There are a lot of encryption and security based chips that will do SHA-256. It's actually prototyping boards and testing their speeds.