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/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`