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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: MAKEAV logic saves the day? :-) (WAS Re: XDOS280.ZIP ExtraDos ...)
Message-ID: <1991May23.054452.5300@uwasa.fi>
Date: 23 May 91 05:44:52 GMT
References: <1991May20.161907.7287@uwasa.fi> <1991May21.102940.18119@uwasa.fi>
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <1991May21.102940.18119@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>In article <1991May20.161907.7287@uwasa.fi> ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
:
>>There are many useful utilities in it worth evaluating.  But is the
>>authenticy label SQUIRREL Mailbox for real or is it a MAKEAV hack?
:
>Well, I've since found other utilities with the same rodential
>authenticy label, so there went yet another safeguard down the
>bittity drain.  The collection passed all my other tests, though, so
:

In a way this is all very funny in a ridiculous sort of way. 
Exporting MAKEAV is not allowed from the US because it has such a
powerful encryption algorithm in it, and the some two bit hacker
comes along and merrily cracks it.  Way to go.  :-)

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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