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From: Mok-Kong Shen on 1 Jun 2010 03:15
Am 29.04.2010 19:02, schrieb Mok-Kong Shen:
> Maaartin wrote:
> [snip]
>> What is the prize for the challenge?
>
> I personally hitherto "hate" that money be involved in scientific
> discussions on principle grounds. But I think making one such exception
> in my life doesn't equal to a very big sin or an unmoral gamble. So
> I'll make the following "concrete" offer to you, Mr. Maaartin (and to
> you personally "only", since it is you who first raised such an issue).
>
> The PRNGs will be of the type I mentioned in a reply to you, namely
> second order polynomial congruential generators having full period
> mod 2^32. Their coefficients and seeds involved I'll randomly
> determine, once you accept the offer. The first PRNG will generate a
> 2*2 Hill matrix using L*R as I stated in the original post and the
> second PRNG will generate a plaintext vector consisting of 2 elements
> to result in a ciphertext vector.
>
> Now, if you (without foreign aid) succeed to determine the PRNG that
> generates the Hill matrix from the pair of plaintext and ciphertext
> vectors, I'll give you one time 50% of a month's income of mine. If you
> fail to do that within 6 months, you give me one time 5% (not 50%) of a
> month's income of yours. Is that fair enough for you?

For recording purposes I like to say that the above offer (see also
my post of 01.05.2010 23:14) has now expired.

M. K. Shen
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