-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.7.1 Comment: PGP available outside U.S.A. at ftp.ox.ac.uk iQBVAwUBMfWVOPthU5e7emAFAQG99QIAlKIBWs8ynr00uincnNBCymdz2E8CrlL3 MhCndNxOgpFIkjvJSdHNT+4alt2hsgU3fMlK8xWOK56R8WxdkTZvMw== =GesG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----