How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid (Steven Levy/Wired) (www.techmeme.com)

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Steven Levy / Wired: How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid — John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa's history.

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[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Real link: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-you-can-now-see-the-code-that-ended-apartheid/

[-] krogoth@infosec.pub 9 points 3 weeks ago

Or you could follow to the (original) blog: https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-open.html

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