COPACOBANA

A Codebreaker for DES and other Ciphers

This site shows pictures of the first prototype of COPACOBANA. It hosts 120 FPGAs and is powered by a 600W power supply. The housing consists of a junction box with nine standard 8cm fans.

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COPACOBANA S1 (Spartan-3 XC3S1000, Revision 12/2006)

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FPGA DIMM card (front and rear view)

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Brute force attack on DES with COPACOBANA

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COPACOBANA Prototypes (using Spartan3 XC3S1000/Virtex 4 XCV4SX35 FPGAs)

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