Yay! My project was approved. :)

I'm curious which version will be shipped to me. The basic goals can be achieved with the fpga less version, but an fgpa would be quite interesting.

VIA Epia boards now come with hardware AES encryption and random number generation. The fpga based efika would make similar functionality possible. And I've read some interesting stuff on spam filtering and virus detection using fpga's.

Well, wait and see. It's still almost a month before the boards will be shipped if I understand things correctly.
In the meantime I'll look around for a nice psu and/or case and other pieces of hardware that may come in handy in this project.