You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

Tim Jenkin , a former South African anti-apartheid activist, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1978 .

He was given a mandate to create a communications system that was computerized and unbreakable.

Using a Toshiba T1000 PC running an early version of MS-DOS , Jenkin wrote a system using the most secure form of crypto, a one -time pad, which scrambles messages character by character using a shared key that’s as long as the message itself.

Operation Vula was a key factor in the ANC 's victory in defeating apartheid.

Operation broke apartheid in South Africa in 1991 and credited it with key role in Nelson Mandela's victory.

Coder and others tried to break the encryption of the code, and failed.

Graham-Cumming used an ancient version of MS-DOS to attack the code.

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