Win95 Registration Wizard info

I picked this link up from the Fringewear list.  It has some interesting
information for quelling rumors and starting new ones.

ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/windows/win95.update/regwiz.html

The author takes the registration Wizard in Win95 apart and shows exactly
what it does and what it looks for.  Some interesting information about the
encrypted database of product information it uses.

It has a complete list of all of the products that the registration looks
for.  (PGP is not one of them.)  Some interesting facts about what it does
look for however...

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Alan Olsen writes:
> I picked this link up from the Fringewear list.
[...]
> The author takes the registration Wizard in Win95 apart and shows exactly
> what it does and what it looks for.  Some interesting information about the
> encrypted database of product information it uses.

What, exactly, does this have to do with cypherpunks?

Perry

> Alan Olsen writes:
> > I picked this link up from the Fringewear list.
> [...]
> > The author takes the registration Wizard in Win95 apart and shows exactly
> > what it does and what it looks for.  Some interesting information about the
> > encrypted database of product information it uses.
> 
> What, exactly, does this have to do with cypherpunks?

I guess Perry didn't see the word 'encrypted'... Perry, you really ought to see the web page - it's
quite good, and has a lot of good information.  It also illustrates some of the pitfalls inherent in 
writing such applications, and exposes bad code written by commercial vendors.  I thought that that 
was part of what Cypherpunks is for, but maybe it's just for Perry-approved posts.
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