718 sats \ 4 replies \ @Reachableceo 7 Sep 2023 \ on: Just found on Reddit: BTC White Hat Bounty bitcoin
My guess on this is that $WESTERN_INTELLIGENCE_AGENCY_BOOGYMAN thinks with high confidence that some kind of gpg 0 day exists . Or , I should say, is being actively exploited/used. 0 days existing in the gpg codebase is almost certainly 100% lol.
Put some cash up that’s probably less than the daily coffee budget and see who bites.
Or alternatively, they want to find a particular collection of compute that they can’t otherwise locate, and whatever methods used for factoring the key / passphrase has a signature.
Yes, I am completely guessing. I have no idea.
I think it's more plausible that someone is trying to prove their stack is secure.
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You may wonder why I am offering this challenge. Well, that's for me to know.
... and you to find out
I like it, as you say - OP is proving a point - they've got a really nice, long password. Maybe coming back in a year or so to write an article to make their point.
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when you hear hoofbeats, it's usually horses.
It's more likely that his stack is protected this way (or he's thinking of protecting his stack that way) and this bounty is his canary-in-the-coalmine
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Who knows, you might be right.
That's some pretty smart thinking (by them and you)!
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