🚀 go-pugleaf

"Mike Duffy" <respond@invalid.invalid> wrote 
> "|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:8bjsrpFjsgU1@mid.individual.net: 
> 
>> "raven1" <quoththeraven@nevermore.com> wrote > 
>>> ... excuse as to why you won't post an actual guess.
>> 
>> 
>> You ask me to guess your VIN, and put up $100.
>> 
>> I post my guess encrypted a few hours later, I have the video of
>> me channeling my guess. 
>> 
>> You complain I won't put my guess up front!
>> 
>> WTF?????
>> 
>> Just post the VIN you moron, it's that simple!
> 
> 
> Hercules has no way of knowing if the VIN Raven will reveal is the 
> same as the real one. We will refer instead to a "hidden" number 
> chosen by Raven before the test, which may or may not be his actual 
> VIN.
> 
> 
> What you two need to do is
> 
> 1) Each get a set of PGP keys, just for this test. Download the 
> latest PGP freeware, and use it to generate a new set of keys. Do not 
> use keys you otherwise use, because you will each need to reveal the 
> private keys later.
> 
> 2) Post here your "public" keys.
> 
> 3) Raven uses his private key to create a PGP signature of a message 
> with his hidden number. Raven posts the PGP signature here.
> 
> 4) After Hercules sees the above message, Hercules uses his private 
> key to create a PGP signature of a message with Raven's hidden 
> number. Hercules posts a copy of the PGP signature of that message.
> 
> 4) Raven and Hercules both reveal their private keys used for this 
> test.
> 
> 5) Raven and Helcules then both post the original message used to 
> create their respective PGP signatures earlier. (I.e. they both post 
> the message with the "hidden" number.)
> 
> 6) Using PGP, anyone can verify if the PGP signatures posted earlier 
> match the messages posted later.
> 
> 7) Everyone will see if Hercules guessed Raven's hidden number.
> 


You can just concatenate a private password to the VIN and MD5 that.

But we've both posted our MD5s, let's see how close I got.

I cannot go first, a close guess would not be revealed by a devout atheist.

If less than 66% of my letters match then I stop crossposting to alt.atheism for life!

One of you atheists needs to explain to Raven it's ok to let go..

Herc