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Stasi code cracked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Mon Dec 13 10:13:01 1999
Message-Id: <199912131022.CAA29400@toad.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net, gnu@toad.com
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 02:22:11 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Forwarded-by: Maurice Wessling <maurice@xs4all.nl>
(in German)
http://focus.de/G/GP/GPA/gpa.htm?snr=64119&streamsnr=7
First paragraph, from http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?
Gauck authority decodes Stasi file
Data from approximately 15,000 agents of the earlier GDR
foreign espionage were decoded. The two coded magnetic tapes
covered approximately 60,000 operational processes with
pseudonyms of former informers in the Federal Republic and in the
GDR after a report of FOCUS.