1996-05-13 - Re: Notes from the SF Physical Cypherpunks meeting

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From: Matts Kallioniemi <matts@pi.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-05-13 02:32:22 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:32:22 +0800

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From: Matts Kallioniemi <matts@pi.se>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:32:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Notes from the SF Physical Cypherpunks meeting
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At 09:29 1996-05-12 -0700, Martin Minow wrote:
>COM e-mail/bbs system (Sweden) -- operator could backup
>e-mail, but not read it.

Sure. The database was encrypted by using XOR with the string
"KOM". That was the sorry state of encryption in the early eighties.

Matts






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