Re: DES-Busting Screen Savers?

[Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>]

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

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