[Muscle] Cryptoflex at 3.3V ?

[Peter Williams]

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=2958
 
In 1994, I remember a certain high profile internet founder (D.Phil, D.Sc and member of the (UK) Royal Society) privately arguing the prevailing NSA/GCHQ anti-crypto propoganda line of the day : that DES was fine for e-commerce because addressing the heat emitted by a DES key Cracker (conformed of a 100k dedicated micros with custom DES logic) was a really hard, cost-prohibitive engineering problem to solve (here on Earth).
 
Im still looking for someone to solve "peter's power problem": take a common or garden commercial reel  (hot off the atmel line, with 50k plastic-packaged Die) of 50k micard-powered micros with a 16bit crypto coprocessor, subject it "as a reel" to suitable mifare reader that can power and address 50k devices, and ensure the reel doesnt generate so much internal heat that the computer destoys itself. Presumably, one simply stufs a lot of such reels on a schoolbus sized satellite, and computes away merrily in orbit...? (once one uses spacerad-capable materials)



> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:57:33 +0100> From: cucinotta at sssup.it> To: muscle at lists.musclecard.com> Subject: [Muscle] Cryptoflex at 3.3V ?> > Hi all,> 
> Do you know of any cryptographic smart-card that would run> at 3.3V ?> > Thanks, bye,> > T.> >
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