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Re: Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Grigg)
Tue Aug 3 22:25:34 2004
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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:18:27 +0100
From: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
To: Steve Furlong <sfurlong@acmenet.net>
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Steve Furlong wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3528502.stm
> Bah. They were probably Word documents with the "password required"
> option turned on.
Read about one of their coding systems here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jihad13chap1.html
And, FWIW, my commentary:
http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000119.html
iang
[Moderator's Note: One wonders if the document on the "Smoking Gun"
website is even remotely real. It is amazingly amateurish -- the sort
of code practices that were obsolete before the Second World War. --Perry]
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