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Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)
In August 2020 we were commissioned to recover a cache of locked QText documents from the mid-90s. This is the process of analyzing the encrypted documents and reverse engineering a DOS-era Hebrew-English word processor written in Turbo Pascal.
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Apr 7, 2025 | Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023) by mu0n | 130 | 39 |
