From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:13:36 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft's CMR Keys
In-Reply-To: <199710272304.AAA16802@basement.replay.com>
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At 12:04 AM +0100 10/28/1997, Anonymous wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>Tim May, or someone like him, Wrote:
>> I am offering $25,000 for the CMR key for Microsoft.
>> (As a loyal American,
>> I plan to then send it to Janet Reno and Louis Freeh.)
>
>Here's the public key (that _was_ what you asked for, wasn't it? :-)
>
>If you'd like the private key, please enclose $25,000 in small unmarked
>Mark Twain digicash encrypted to the CMR key, mailed to billg@microsoft.com,
>with Subject: Testing Message Recovery, Please Ignore
>and I'll get back to you RSN.

OK, I'll bite.  Why don't we both escrow $25,000 in MT ecash with a trusted
3rd party, say Lucky, while another party, say TCM judges whether your
private key matches MS' public key.  Winner take all.  All decsion by the
judge are final.

--Steve