Open Hardware

[Matthew Astley]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 10:10:46PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Adrian Midgley wrote:

> >And the crypto bit is how would we asssure ourselves that the
> >generic instructions to the FPGA to conform itself to simulate 10
> >SPARCs had not been tampered with between the Free Hardware
> >Foundation's Hippopotamus site and our machine. I'm assuming we can
> >do that because of all the clever people on here.
> 
> The spec would be signed, of course.

Which you would validate using...?

I see a niche market for a public key algorithm that can be
implemented with a deck of cards. IANAC but that sounds like a tall
order!
  http://www.counterpane.com/solitaire.html


Matthew  #8-)