Using a Raspberry Pi as a VPN?

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So I'm sure many of you have heard of the new Raspberry Pi project. I was looking at messing around with Model B, which has the following relevant specs:

Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
256MB RAM
Boots from SD card, running the Fedora version of Linux (ARM Version)
10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket
USB 2.0 socket

So I was curious if it would be possible to create a simple VPN out of this little machine. I do realize that since it's an ARM processor that might mess up quite a few things. Any ideas if this is possible?

Just for what it's worth, this would be a personal project so I'm not worried about performance.

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