Austin Lesea wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Part of my problem is that Altera has kept it a secret how to set the
> key bits.
>
> Without that knowledge, I can not program a device, in order to crack it.

Hmmm ... perhaps you might now understand the feelings of those legit
users want the Xilinx bitstream format opened (so they can write their
own tools).

Everybody's got a secret, I guess.

-a