Re: $100,000 reward

Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:19:49 -0500

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I'm happy to mail $10 to anyone (but not everyone). Let's do this. I need the
reverse-engineering expertise, but I can do the crypto. Can't export, though.

At 04:55 PM 6/19/98 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>Bruce Schneier wrote:
>>
>> Don't do it for the money; do it for the fun and the publicity. Companies
>> that make outlandish crypto claims should be slammed. Someone do the
>> reverse-engineering; I'll do the cryptanalysis.
>
>One snag - in order to participate, you've gotta buy their "Decryption
>Edition" for $10. It is also export restricted (they claim - funny, I
>thought snake oil was freely exportable :-).
>
>If one somehow fell into my hands, I might well attempt to reverse
>engineer it :-) (OTOH, how do we know a decryption only version really
>does anything?)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ben.
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