backhus,

No reward but the satisfaction that you were able to outsmart a room
full of very smart people. Such an accomplishment would definitely
qualify the person for a job offer here at Xilinx.

The part was the 2VP4.

Austin

backhus wrote:
> Hi Austin,
> that sounds reasonable. Security proofs are expensive.
>
> For the V2 boards you gave away ... what reward did you offer in case of
> success? I suspect there are people out there who would pay good for
> that knowledge as long as you don't have it, so why should they tell
> you? ;-)
>
> Best regards
> Eilert
>
> Austin Lesea schrieb:
>> backhus,
>>
>> That is something that we thought about. But, really what we talking
>> about is providing access to the crypto-engine through the general
>> interconnect, and control of that engine.
>>
>> It was considered that anything we do in this regard would have to be
>> completely and thoroughly tested so as not to be a back door, and
>> compromise security.
>>
>> It wasn't worth the work to have to prove we did not break something.