[Cryptography] Buffer overflows from 1974

[Steven M. Bellovin]

And Fourth Edition was 1973, per https://unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html, so before the VT42.

On 6 Jan 2026, at 0:07, Jon Callas wrote:

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>> On Jan 5, 2026, at 18:09, Peter Gutmann via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:
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>> is an ASR3x, not a VT52.
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> The early unix people were pretty obviously two-finger typists on an ASR33. Stupid curly braces.
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> In the DEC world, the VT05 was 1970, VT52 in 1975, VT100 in 1978. For paper printers, the LA36 was 1974. So yeah.
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>         Jon



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