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Re: Distributed cracks, law, and cryptoanarchy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Feb 24 16:44:18 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 24 Feb 1997 16:31:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: gbroiles-nospam@netbox.com's message of Mon, 24 Feb 1997 01:45:45 GMT
I'm sorry to flame, but I'm getting sick of this.
>> The "you must report results only to the crack organizers" rule can be
>> enforced if it's made into a contract. Even without a formal contract,
I don't want to sign a formal contract. I want to break the key. I
don't care about the money. I can buy a lottery ticket if I want a
small chance at winning a lot of money.
I'll participate when I can download something, type make, run it, and
forget about it.
Invoving money money seems to be making it harder, not easier, to do
this. I thought the reason to crack the key was to demonstrate how
weak DES is. If the person who cracks the key collects the reward
himself, so what? A good, public nail in the coffin of restrictions
on crypto is worth the risk that someone steals the $10k, IMHO.
I've got my idle cycles waiting....
Marc
