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Re: Nullsoft's WASTE communication system

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Fri May 30 15:38:58 2003

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Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:58:39 -0400
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>,
	cypherpunks <cypherpunks@lne.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>

At 1:33 AM -0700 5/29/03, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Nullsoft, who did Winamp and Gnutella, just released a package called W A
>S T E
>which does encrypted communications within small groups of people.

It's been pulled -- and mirrored :-). Nullsoft's part of AOHell. Gee, I
wonder how *that* happened...

Probably why they GNUed it, though.

Here's one mirror I found, through Google News:
<http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1054104235>


Don't know if it's still working, as I run a Mac anyway. Lots of
slashdotters were talking about doing linux ports as soon as the
announcement came out, though.

Cheers,
RAH

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