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A comment on Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War.

Re:Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at th... by nxobject on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:14AM (#49445136)
As the article belatedly mentions, the ~40 GB automated tape library for HARVEST was the bee's knees... and possibly the inspiration for "harvest now, encrypt later".

PS – Primary sources for the IBM 7950/HARVEST on Bitsavers, excellent as always:

https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7950/

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Re:Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at th... by MeteorMarc on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:25AM (#49445626)
Decrypt later, I suppose.
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Re:Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at th... by nxobject on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:24AM (#49446586)
Ouch, that was indeed a typo...
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