single chip 100Mhash/s?
What about evolving the hardware to do the hashing rather than writing it as straight VHDL?
I had a good idea about using hadoop clusters to run the fitness tests for the evolutionary algorithm testing.
For those who have no clue what i am talking about, read the article about the professors that got an fpga to recognize the difference between two tones with way less than 100 gates and no CLK.
http://fsweb.olin.edu/~mchang/research/documents/seminar/evolve2k2/evolve.ppthttp://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.htmlI always had a thought that evolving the circuits would be a way to find really fast ways of "cracking" various hashing algorithms, as well as making really tiny encoders and decoders for various projects.
Anyhow, i enjoyed this thread.