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Re: Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Furlong)
Tue Aug 3 14:36:13 2004
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From: Steve Furlong <sfurlong@acmenet.net>
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Date: 03 Aug 2004 12:17:14 -0400
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:03, John Denker wrote:
> News article
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3528502.stm
> says in part:
>
> > The BBC's Zaffar Abbas, in Islamabad, says it appears that US
> > investigators were able to unscramble information on the computers
> > after Pakistan passed on suspicious encrypted documents.
Bah. They were probably Word documents with the "password required"
option turned on.
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