German students develop crypto chip

[Barry de la Rosa]

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A story on Slashdot mentions that German students at Stuttgart have
developed a crypto chip, and are to release the VHDL as Open Source.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/06/23/130207&mode=flat

What are the implications of Open Sourcing a VHDL? And is this chip
really groundbreaking or particularly fast?

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