From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 18:52:42 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: cypherpunks coding challenge
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A couple of people have complained of the huge efforts put into
breaking keys, and of the small efforts invested in cypherpunks code
writing of late.

Perhaps there is something to this challenge stuff, in terms of
getting contributors, neatly tabulating results, working up
enthusiasm etc.

So... how about a code writing challenge, an award for the best
cypherpunk project every month.  (No monetary prize, just vote on list
to decide most significant project).

Perhaps a list of how many lines of code.  A hall of fame if you like:

% wc -l `find . -name \*.h -print -o -name \*.c -print`

Eric Young		SSL-eay		101,721 lines
PGP Inc			pgp30		    (?) lines
Phil Zimmermann & co	pgp263		 34,891 lines
Peter Gutmann		cryptlib200	 34,845 lines
Tatu Ylonen		ssh-1.2.20	 33,650 lines
Wei Dai			crypto++ 2.1	 32,831 lines
Ian Goldberg		Lucre 0.9.0	 20,283 lines
Colin Plumb		bnlib		 20,148 lines
Matt Blaze & co		cryptolib-1.1	 19,908 lines
Pr0duct Cipher		PGPTools	 13,062 lines
Pr0duct Cipher		Magic Money	 15,026 lines
Ben Laurie		Apache-SSL patch    957 lines
etc.

Adam
-- 
Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

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