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cypherpunks coding challenge
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
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