while on the topic of difficult-to-review security-related things .. has anyone on the list played with one of these? <http://www.3com.com/products/dsheets/400517.html> <http://www.3com.com/products/dsheets/3cr990.html> It's a 10/100 PCI Ethernet NIC with an onboard 168-bit 3DES coprocessor; supposedly it can offload IPSEC and TCP segment processing from the main OS/CPU. The data sheets mention support for lots of closed-source OS's, and it was apparently developed with close cooperation from Microsoft. Apparently the card and Windows 2000 communicate across an API which allows the card to handle DES, 3DES, MD5, and SHA-1. I don't know if I trust it and Win 2000 to provide real security .. but even if it's just a $90 3DES coprocessor, that would still be an interesting result for people working on hobbyist brute-force crack boxes. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
