From: "Z.B." <zachb@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 05:36:55 +0800
To: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
Subject: Re: MD5 completely broken!
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On Sun, 18 Aug 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:

> The following is true. There used to be company in Silicon Vallye that marketed
> compression software guaranteed to reduce any file to no more than 128K, no
> matter how large the input. That side worked. The decompression side didn't.
> 
I remember reading this file somewhere...it was satirizing either 
Microsoft or IBM, and in a very serious manner, described a revolutionary 
new compression program that would reduce any file to a size of one 
byte.  However, in order to decompress the file, a larger file containing
all of the information of the original file needed to be attached to it.  
Fun to read...

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Zach Babayco

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