PamelaDrew on Nostr: Super fun bit of rebel spirit history and mystery! It's not often that you find ...
Super fun bit of rebel spirit history and mystery!
It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down the apartheid system in South Africa, and code that was used for secure communication using one-time pads smuggled into South Africa by a flight attendant on floppy disks. But I found myself doing that one morning recently after having helped decrypt a 30 year old PKZIP file whose password had long been forgotten.
https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-open.html
It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down the apartheid system in South Africa, and code that was used for secure communication using one-time pads smuggled into South Africa by a flight attendant on floppy disks. But I found myself doing that one morning recently after having helped decrypt a 30 year old PKZIP file whose password had long been forgotten.
https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-open.html