NERD ALERT - On the Vulnerability of FPGA Bitstream Encry…

NERD ALERT - On the Vulnerability of FPGA Bitstream Encryption against - Power Analysis Attacks – Extracting Keys from Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs –

kind of mind-blowing. then i think, uh how long has some TLA been totally aware of this and made it practical?
http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/390.pdf