The First Step to Cypherspace?

bughunter writes "Need to encrypt/decrypt your net traffic at up to 6.7 Gigabits per second? Using an ASIC instantiation of DES, pipeline archetecture, and single-cycle key/mode switching, Sandia National Labs has got the hardware you need. They say that this device can actually support almost 10 Gbps, but they haven't tried to run it that fast? and if you used parallel ASICs, you could get to 1 Tbps. And since it's an ASIC, any encryption scheme could be used. Anyone else see where this could lead? " Drool.