Re: $100,000 reward

Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:14:42 +0100

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Lucky Green wrote:
>
> At 07:31 98/06/19 -0500, 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.
>
> There are dozens, if not hundreds, of snake oil crypto programs out there.
> I would be surprised if Meganet had 500 customers. Meganet is just one of
> the many snake oil vendors. Within that industry, prize offers abound.
> Anyone remember the company that offered $1,000,000 for breaking their
> crypto system a few years ago? Their design was broken on Cypherpunks
> within a day. I don't recall anyone receiving a reward. Rather than
> spending precious cycles on snake oil that hardly anybody uses, let's focus
> on debunking potentially insecure systems that are widely deployed.
>
> The new RSA Mondex cards and the six non-COMP128 GSM providers come to mind.

Sounds like more fun. Where do we start?

Cheers,

Ben.

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