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RE: This sounds like an easy $1000 for someone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Tunnicliffe)
Fri Feb 21 13:00:59 1997
From: "James A. Tunnicliffe" <jim.tunnicliffe@inference.com>
To: "'cryptography@c2.net'" <cryptography@c2.net>,
"'Andy Brown'"
<a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
Cc: "'coderpunks@toad.com'" <coderpunks@toad.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:12:44 -0800
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Andy Brown[SMTP:a.brown@nexor.co.uk] wrote:
> In case you haven't already seen it, the people at
> http://www.enigmagroup.com are offering $1000 to anyone that can
> crack their encryption system which seems to be derived from the
> German Enigma cipher of WW2, surely not a very
> sound base for offering real money.
Well, the challenge text isn't there yet, but I'll bet it's not going to
be a fair challenge. They insist on an "successful algorithmic attack",
but the algorithm is being kept secret (and what do you bet they
disqualify challengers who reverse-engineer!). Besides, the "challenge
cleartext" is likely to be random bits, making it hard (perhaps even
impossible) to know when you've found the correct key.
I found it amusing that they claim "Compression of files after
encryption"...
Tunny
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