Fred Mobach writes:
At “Stuttgarter Studenten entwickeln Krypto-Chip” you can read a
story of 8 students in Stuttgart (Germany) who designed a crypto
chip for DES and RSA. On July 8th, the VHDL sources will be made
public as Open Source.
The hardware isn’t gratis, but the design can be used by
everybody, who’s interested.
Complete
Story (In German)