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FYI: RISKS DIGEST 14.64
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 06:16:16 -0500
------ Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 13 May 93 10:22:19 -0700 From: forman () cs washington edu Subject: Rewards offered for finding bugs in Japanese encryption methods In RISKS-14.60 Klaus Brunnstein implies that "Security by Obscurity" (not making an encryption method public) is a poor way to get a secure encryption method. Both the USA's Clipper Chip and Europe's A5 standards use Security by Obscurity. Japan doesn't seem to rely on this arcane method: Professor Shigeo Tsujii of the Tokyo Institute of Technology is offering $3000 to anyone who can find a bug in his new encryption method called "NIKS-TA". (Described in his 15-page thesis.) Similarly, in 1989 NTT offered $9100 (1M yen) for finding a bug in their encryption method. [This could be RISKy if the reward is not big enough, and someone on the "other side" is offering more? PGN] ------ End of Forwarded Message
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