Timothy C. May wrote: | >As far as cash prizes go how much could cypherpunks and friends | >generate for such a purpose? I'd guess individuals could come up with | >a fair bit of money... 1000+ list members x 10$ = 10k (or whatever). | | 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. 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. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume