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He'd probably even send $10 to SDF if they could find him. It would be somewhat more trivial for a Wordpress employee if the site was at voidnull.wordpress.com.

The difference seems to be that he doesn't want to have trust anybody, whereas you'd be happy trusting organizations such as Wordpress and the US legal system.

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Actually, I think mseebach's point was the opposite: that this challenge, even if nobody claims the prize, does not prove that tor + sdf-shell-paid-by-mail is secure against leaking your identity.

Oh, I see. Yeah, I think you're right. Actually, the $10 cash prize matches Bruce Schneier's Security Snake Oil Warning Sign #9: Cracking contests.

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html

Well then if you want you can say that Keccak/SHA-3 matches snake oil in the same way. They were giving away chocolates for crypto results!

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