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jcul 58 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

IIUC the rotating challenge actually didn't have anything to do with the key, it was a red herring. The actual decryption key was just a function of the fixed serial number or something like that.

wodenokoto 57 days ago [–]

I'm talking about, if they had actual encryption, how would it have supposed to even work?

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