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Re: DES Key recovery project, Progress Report #7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Thu Feb 20 16:59:35 1997
From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
To: trei@process.com
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:49:41 -0800 (PST)
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net, trei@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199702202117.NAA22022@blacklodge.c2.net> from Peter Trei at "Feb 20, 97 04:24:48 pm"
> It seems that the existance of the prize money is a problem
> to many of them - they have either personal objections to
> it ('we should be demonstrating that Internet users can
> unite and rise above crass commercial concerns'), or they
> are using university owned machines and are under restrictions
> against using them for profit. The $5000 prize from the
> RC5-48 crack was given to Project Gutenburg (a worthy cause,
> but I'd have prefered EPIC). Many of the people in that group
> become quite incensed when it's suggested that the key-finder
> decide what to do with the money.
>
The $1000 for the 40 bit crack went to the UC Regents. Seems
like if they are concerned about their universities saying 'don't do
this' all they have to do is say 'well the money will go to you
anyway'.
I think Europeans are just not materialistic money grubbers
like those of us in the states. =)
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