How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft

Re:How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft by nailer on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @07:52AM (#14653310)

Microsoft have already 404d the article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/307010

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Re:How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft by casparz on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:27AM (#14653488)

Luckily we have a snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20170327154501/https://support.m...

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Re:How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft by bartread on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:30AM (#14653501)

Also now dead - I just get a blank page apart from the header and footer.

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Re:How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft by casparz on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:35AM (#14653527)

I got the same at first, seems some script removes it though. I see the content flashing by, i saved the content using wget and got the original page.

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Re:How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft by kalleboo on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:23AM (#14653821)

If you disable JavaScript you can see the content, it seems like there's some script that replaces it on page load.

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Re:How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft by nthcolumn on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @10:11AM (#14654249)

wat? why? they have some sort of 'message will self-destruct javascript' in their page which is carried into the wayback machine?

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Re:How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft by jaclaz on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @01:55PM (#14656489)

I still can access it just fine: https://web.archive.org/web/20170327154501/https://support.m...

(I have javascript disabled anyway)

However the article is:

>Article ID: 307010 - Last Review: Nov 15, 2012 - Revision: 1

>Applies to Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2002 Standard Edition

So it seems like a bit out of date anyway, having been originally devised for 2002-2005 products.

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Re:How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft by nailer on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:51AM (#14654041)

Here's the original Microsoft article:

https://gist.github.com/mikemaccana/badf6c16f203e05c02b42f93...

(disabled JS in DevTools, caught it from archive.org before JS to wipe it kicked in)

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