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.
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)
http://www.techmeme.com/241019/p11#a241019p11
5 Comments
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
Real link: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-you-can-now-see-the-code-that-ended-apartheid/
krogoth@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 1y
Or you could follow to the (original) blog: https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-open.html
glitchcake@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
lud@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
In this case, John reached out to the journalist so I wouldn't go so far.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y
Paywall.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
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.