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Re: DES Challenge II -- New RSA-sponsored Contest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Thu Dec 18 20:05:33 1997
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 97 16:46:47 PST
From: jim@mentat.com (Jim Gillogly)
To: cryptography@c2.net, vin@shore.net
Vin McLellan says (quoting RSADSI):
> "If the time required is less than or equal to 25 percent of the previous
> winner's time, the prize is $10,000. If the time is greater than 25
> percent, but less than or equal to 50 percent of the previous winner's
> time, the prize is $5,000. Finally, if the time is greater than 50 percent,
> but less than
> or equal to 75 percent of the previous winner's time, the prize is
> $1,000. There is no prize for times greater than 75 percent of the
> previous winner's time.
>
> "The 'previous winner's' time that will be used for the first contest is 90
> days."
The previous winner in the DES contest was 140 days, according to the
RSA "status" web page. This last sentence doesn't appear in the
current RSA challenge page at www.rsa.com/rsalabs/des2/html/continued.html.
Jim Gillogly
Hevensday, 29 Foreyule S.R. 1997, 00:48
12.19.4.13.17, 7 Caban 15 Mac, Seventh Lord of Night
