Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge
[Me:]
> > I think it would score a lot of PR points for Debian to place, or win.
> > Debian is a Linux distribution. Our win is Linux's win. Our win is the
> > FSF's win. Our win is even, to some degree, RedHat's and Slackware's win,
> > because they serve a similar market with a similar product. Microsoft
> > droids don't appear to be participating: I didn't see any pre-compiled
> > clients for Windows NT.
[Brian White:]
> I agree completely, but we can place on a different list. There are
> rankings for email address (chosen when running the program), machine
> name (derived from the IP address), and the domain name (also derived
> from the IP address).
>
> If we could create a proxy and route all key requests through our
> www.debian.org, then that machine would appear, given our current
> participation, SECOND on the machine list and THIRD on the domain
> list. Because the name "www.debian.org" means web-site, we should
> hopefully get quite a few hits to that site!
>
> In addition, anybody looking at the numbers would indicate to everyone
> that we are obviously supporting the "linuxnet" address (since at
> 10.1MKeys/sec, only linuxnet and #root have higher totals).
>
> I'm sure the stats-keeper would transfer our totals to linux@linuxnet.org
> and www.debian.org if we asked nicely enough.
That sounds like a damn good idea. Anyone up for setting up a proxy?
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