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Better open source programmable logic support and better devices would spur a great leap forward. icestorm is a great effort but it is limited to devices that seem elderly and affordable field programmable devices don't seem to be advancing very quickly.

Try icestorm

having an open "gate array" or FPGA with fully diclosed bistream would be really relevant. morover it could have a RISC-V hard core side by side.

actually there's anyway a reverse engineering effort of the bitstream for the iCE40 Lattice smaller FPGA (up to 8K LUT), it's project icStorm

http://www.clifford.at/icestor...

together with arachne-pnr and yosys, you could put in place a fully open source pipeline to program those little rascals, from Verilog to bitstream.

this cold be also the starting path toward a similar open source hardware design, suppose. if that's road is not encumbered by patents about this kind of "gate layout", of course.

I like to think that, too. Of course, some vulnerabilities aren't that obvious in the source code, and some aren't visible in the source at all.

Any good programmer attempting to translate a large program into Brainfuck would not try to do it manually. There are already programs which can translate various languages into Brainfuck (1 2 3 4). It should be feasible to target one of those languages.

I think you mean 2ROT13: http://phoenix.clifford.at/~ak/2rot13.pdf

Geez, you should at least use something secure, like 2ROT13.

Come on, we all know that we should be using at least 2ROT13[warning:pdf] by now.

Since that site appears to be slashdotted, google turned up another one..

Might as well take down both of them, right?

Well, I would, if they one built computers with Brainf*ck CPU.