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Did the next generation make encryption 2x better by having double rot13?

• bpchaps 10y ago
  They might as well have, honestly. I found it on accident when tying to link my group's database to the risk management system, since it was also their internal cluster computing system. It was more or less a giant python object store, including code. It had zero documentation and since I worked second, I had to figure it without any devs online. Eventually found the password store after looking through other groups' production code. Turns out that double clicking on an object showed its code and anything linked to it, so once you have the password function object, you get all linked password hashes. Double clicking the hashes then ran its linked function - rot13 - and printed it to the screen. This was in 2011, so they should've known better! I've seen some pretty bad stuff, but that was pretty up there.