Notes from the SF Physical Cypherpunks meeting

Matts Kallioniemi matts at pi.se
Sun May 12 19:32:22 PDT 1996


At 09:29 1996-05-12 -0700, Martin Minow wrote:
>COM e-mail/bbs system (Sweden) -- operator could backup
>e-mail, but not read it.

Sure. The database was encrypted by using XOR with the string
"KOM". That was the sorry state of encryption in the early eighties.

Matts







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