How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid (Steven Levy/Wired)

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How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid

Steven Levy / Wired: How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid — John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa's history.

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Real link: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-you-can-now-see-the-code-that-ended-apartheid/
- Or you could follow to the (original) blog: https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-open.html
Oh, good, so not significant in terms of a current conflict/state of things - I was afraid some megacorp with too much power gave away communication system secrets of some current apartheid system.