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Tuesday, June 11, 2002
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/encryption/story/0,10801,71894,00.html Update: Norwegian database unlocked BRIAN SULLIVAN The mystery of the lost password at a Norwegian library has been solved. A Swedish IT pro found the missing database password for the Ivar Aasen Centre of Language and Culture in Oresta, Norway,Information Director Torgeir Dimmen said this morning. Dimmen said Joakim Eriksson cracked the code and opened a database containing information on 14,000 books and magazines published in the New Norwegian language. The books and magazines were donated to the centre by Reidar Djupedal. The donation also included a dBase database created by Djupedal's son-in-law Wolf Djupedal that cataloged the collection. However, both men died without revealing the password that would open the database....
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