See, for example, COPACOBANA which uses FPGAs to crack some crypto, including DES.  That was in 2008.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copacobana.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copacobana.org&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; COPACOBANA, the Cost-Optimized Parallel COde Breaker, is an FPGA-based machine which is optimized for running cryptanalytical algorithms. COPACOBANA is suitable for parallel computation problems which have low communication requirements. DES cracking is such a parallelizable problem: an exhaustive key search of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) takes no longer than a week on average with COPACOBANA. Other ciphers can be attacked too, and COPACOBANA can also be used for parallel computing problem outside cryptography.