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Code that helped end Apartheid

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358 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 13:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.19s | source
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LeifCarrotson ◴[18 Oct 24 15:33 UTC] No.41880363[source]▶
Interesting how the PKZIP password-protected compressed file is now easily decrypted in <5 minutes, but the original one-time pad is still as mathematically robust as ever.

We could have had a very different history if they'd used DES or RC2 for encryption!

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1. pastage ◴[18 Oct 24 22:30 UTC] No.41884073[source]▶
South Africa did buy at least some of Crypto AGs backdoored products, not sure when though.