From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 2 21:16:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA29958 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:16:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-36.netcom.ca [207.181.94.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA29952 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id BAA01530; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 01:16:13 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 01:16:13 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Brian Tao cc: Charles Henrich , jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New team roster list! (was Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Brian Tao wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Charles Henrich wrote: > > > > One thing Im curious about is what happens to the $1000 if vex wins? > > if we had a freebsd.org team at least freebsd would benefit.. > > Remember, it's RSA who awards the prize. It would be reasonable > to say that genx.net will get the $10000 if their effort finds the > key. If so, I read they will donate $9000 to charity, and $1000 to > the winning host that found the key. I suppose it is then up to that > person to spend the money as he or she sees fit. right, but that didn't quite answer the question...:)