Searching RC5 Keyspaces with Distributed Reconfigurable Hardware

摘要

Topic Area: Software. Implementation details and performance measurements for a brute-force RC5 keycrack application executing on a cluster containing commodity reconfigurable hardware are presented. The purpose of the application is to gauge the maximum real-world speedups attainable on a metacomputer that forms the underlying execution platform. The operation of the metacomputer and its associated tools, designed to target cluster-based distributed reconfigurable hardware in a high-level manner, is discussed in detail.