Just as a matter of interest, re: the new bitcoin boxes like the butterfly
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/06/how-a-total-n00b-mine...Do these put a different slant on the whole "current-day computation" angle? Not necessarily these machines, but isn't it feasible that custom hardware could be manufactured using current tech, that upsets the notion of AES brute force feasibility?
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No. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121264.0