[47508] in Cypherpunks
Re: Win95 Registration Wizard info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin)
Thu Jan 18 20:39:20 1996
From: "Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 19:26:49 -0600 (CST)
Cc: alano@teleport.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601181503.KAA06603@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Jan 18, 96 10:03:27 am
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
> Alan Olsen writes:
> > I picked this link up from the Fringewear list.
> [...]
> > The author takes the registration Wizard in Win95 apart and shows exactly
> > what it does and what it looks for. Some interesting information about the
> > encrypted database of product information it uses.
>
> What, exactly, does this have to do with cypherpunks?
I guess Perry didn't see the word 'encrypted'... Perry, you really ought to see the web page - it's
quite good, and has a lot of good information. It also illustrates some of the pitfalls inherent in
writing such applications, and exposes bad code written by commercial vendors. I thought that that
was part of what Cypherpunks is for, but maybe it's just for Perry-approved posts.
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