[Hardware] The market of ASICs (One GigaKey / Second?)

[jbass at dmsd.com]

A quick ascii graphic of my previous text.

With things unrolled into a pipeline of adders and barrel shifter functional
blocks, you have this matrix structure with 26 stages horizontal, and 3 rounds
coupled vertically with 26 bit long shift register fifos to synchornize the
S terms:

       Ctr
        |
        v
      ------   ------   ------   ......   ------   ------   ------
      | 1  |-->| 2  |-->| 3  |-->      -->| 24 |-->| 25 |-->| 26 |-->AB1
      ------   ------   ------   ......   ------   ------   ------
        #        #        #                 #        #        #
      ------   ------   ------   ......   ------   ------   ------
AB1-->| 1  |-->| 2  |-->| 3  |-->      -->| 24 |-->| 25 |-->| 26 |-->AB2
      ------   ------   ------   ......   ------   ------   ------
        #        #        #                 #        #        #
      ------   ------   ------   ......   ------   ------   ------
AB2-->| 1  |-->| 2  |-->| 3  |-->      -->| 24 |-->| 25 |-->| 26 |
      ------   ------   ------   ......   ------   ------   ------

Where each box is the logic for a stage, and '#' is a fifo connection
vertically. It takes 78 clocks to test first key, and one key per clock
thereafter.

Hope that makes a bit more sense.

John