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From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix software and USSR
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.164345.1370@micrognosis.co.uk>
Date: 29 Sep 90 16:43:45 GMT
References: <1990Sep25.145615.29488@hq.demos.su> <4113@altos86.Altos.COM> <34374@cup.portal.com>
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In article <34374@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
|> [Vadim Antonov] posted a short program using "crypt()" and claimed:
|> 
|> 	``The result should be:  XXcXimKPpq0M.            :-) :-) :-) ''

|> USA-based UNIX systems [get] ``XX0/imINzSUs'' [ which means ]
|> "love and kisses"  I'm in "the" Soviet Union

|> Pretty clever if you ask me!

Yeah, I guess finding a decent plaintext for an arbitrary crypt'ed
ciphertext is quite a neat hack.

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