[CQ-Contest] Dumbing-Down Contests?

[Michael Coslo]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:42 AM, David Robbins K1TTT wrote:

> Not serial numbers, too easy to copy and listen from qso to qso to  
> see if
> you got the right one.  make the contest sponsor issue each entrant  
> an rsa
> number generator like is used for corporate vpn logins, these  
> generate a 6
> digit pseudo random number that changes every 10 or 15 seconds.   
> These could
> be verified by the proper algorithm in the log checking software  
> assuming
> the logged times are accurate enough.  The algorithm could probably be
> written into most logging software given a unique encryption key  
> from the
> contest sponsor for each entrant.  It would even be more fun to  
> make it
> generate an alphanumeric sequence instead of just numbers, then you  
> couldn't
> use cut numbers!  Solves 2 'problems' with one complicated fix!
>

HOWL!

You had me for a moment there, David!

-73 de Mike N3LI -