Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test

[Steve Furlong]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:03, John Denker wrote:
> News article
>    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3528502.stm
> says in part:
> 
> > The BBC's Zaffar Abbas, in Islamabad, says it appears that US
> > investigators were able to unscramble information on the computers
> > after Pakistan passed on suspicious encrypted documents.

Bah. They were probably Word documents with the "password required"
option turned on.


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