From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:24:37 +0800
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To: cypherpunks
From: Bill Stewart
Date: 7/23/96

Tim wrote:
>| More realistically, 1000+ list members x 10% who make plans to
>| contribute x half of these who actually follow through x $10 = $500.
>| (If that....)
>| Prizes have their place, but are hard to set up properly.

All right, $100 to the winner, by the end of 1996,
for a reasonably-convincingly-non-rigged public crack of DES,
whether it's from a net-run or screen-saver effort,
a DES cracker using fancy special equipment, supercomputers,
microcomputers, DES chips, or Gate Array chips.
$100 extra bonus if the winner is from the NSA or FBI 
(Black-bag jobs, rubber-hose cryptanalysis, and subpoenas
all count as rigged - sorry :-)

At 08:46 AM 7/23/96 -0500, Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> wrote:
>	A better way to set up a prize is to find a few big companies
>willing to sponsor such a demonstration.  AT&T, Nortel, RSA, Netscape,
>Microsoft, Qualcomm, and many other companies have an interest in
>seeing stronger than DES crypto exportable.  Perhaps one of them could
>set up a prize, similar to netscape's Bugs Bounty, or the RSA-129
>challenge.

Perhaps cracking 56-bit DES would count as a new bug for Netscape's
existing Bugs Bounty?  

                                  Bill Stewart


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