Re-purposing of FPGA boards made for mining

[regular]

would anyone consider a bounty for a WPA cracking firmware like what Cablepair had organized for an improved modminer quad fw?

[K1773R]

WPA should be possible due to its algo design, but dont ask me at which speeds! As i dont have a FPGA i cant do it

[Bogart]

I'll tell you one thing that could benefit from some hardware acceleration: Video encoding.  Specifically, H.264.

The last time I looked I couldn't even find an (open source) GPU-accelerated H.264 encoder.

(The same likely goes for a lot of other popular codecs like AAC.)

That would be one of those mid-to-high-bandwidth sort of applications that may not work too well on some existing miner boards.

[Zeek_W]

The last time I looked I couldn't even find an (open source) GPU-accelerated H.264 encoder.

I found an open source GPU project not long ago:

http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php
http://www.traversaltech.com/products.html

[mskwik]

I suspect any of the FPGA boards could be adapted for IMEI cracking without any problems, that's a simple sha1 hash and would require even less communication bandwidth than Bitcoin mining.  Been thinking about adjusting an Icarus board to solve work for yambamoney.com at some point if it shows signs of becoming more profitable than mining, but the whole Windows-only client thing is such a pain that I was hoping for a similar site (preferably paying in BTC) with a better API to build off of.

[Cranky4u]

I suspect any of the FPGA boards could be adapted for IMEI cracking without any problems, that's a simple sha1 hash and would require even less communication bandwidth than Bitcoin mining.  Been thinking about adjusting an Icarus board to solve work for yambamoney.com at some point if it shows signs of becoming more profitable than mining, but the whole Windows-only client thing is such a pain that I was hoping for a similar site (preferably paying in BTC) with a better API to build off of.

will your "icarus" solution be portable to a Cairnsmore (CM1)?

[hardcore-fs]

I suspect any of the FPGA boards could be adapted for IMEI cracking without any problems, that's a simple sha1 hash and would require even less communication bandwidth than Bitcoin mining.  Been thinking about adjusting an Icarus board to solve work for yambamoney.com at some point if it shows signs of becoming more profitable than mining, but the whole Windows-only client thing is such a pain that I was hoping for a similar site (preferably paying in BTC) with a better API to build off of.

it's a VERY easy mod, the bigger job is writing a new client  between the new service and the FPGA