Chaos Digest Lundi 5 Avril 1993 Volume 1 : Numero 17
Editeur: Jean-Bernard Condat (
[email protected])
Archiviste: Yves-Marie Crabbe
Co-Redacteurs: Arnaud Bigare, Stephane Briere
TABLE DES MATIERES, #1.17 (5 Avril 1993)
File 1--109 Entites reseaux de connectivite internationale
File 2--17th Intl. Online Information Meeting (collaboration)
File 3--Disponibilites des sources en C pour Macintosh de PGP v2.2
File 4--Clef publique PGP v2.1
File 5--Publication scolaire de e-journaux (these)
File 6--Critique de "Rogue Programs", L. Hoffman, ed.
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Date: Wed Dec 9 07:01:15 -0600 1992
From:
[email protected] (L.H. Landweber )
Subject: File 1--109 Entites reseaux de connectivite internationale
Copyright: Lawrence H. Landweber & the Internet Society, 1992
INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIVITY
Version 6 - August 31, 1992
Please send corrections, information and/or comments to:
Larry Landweber
Computer Sciences Dept.
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1210 W. Dayton St.
Madison, WI 53706
[email protected]
FAX 1-608-265-2635
Include details, e.g., on connections, sites, contacts, protocols, etc.
Thanks to the many people from around the world who have provided information.
In the following, "BITNET" is used generically to refer to BITNET plus
similar networks around the world (e.g., EARN, NETNORTH, GULFNET, etc.).
Copies of various International Connectivity tables are available by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.wisc.edu in the connectivity_table directory.
Contacts for various countries and postscript versions of world/regional
maps showing network connections will also be available in this directory
in the near future.
SUMMARY
NUMBER OF ENTITIES WITH INTERNATIONAL NETWORK CONNECTIVITY = 109
INTERNET
Col. 3 (Entities with international IP links.)
I: = operational, 46 entities
BITNET
Col. 2 (Entities with international BITNET links.)
b: minimal, < 5 domestic sites, 20 entities
B: widespread, >= 5 domestic sites, 29 entities
UUCP
Col. 4 (Entities with domestic UUCP sites which are connected to the
Global Multiprotocol Open Internet.)
u: minimal, < 5 domestic sites, 40 entities
U: widespread, >= 5 domestic sites, 49 entities
FIDONET
Col. 5 (Entities with international FIDONET links.)
f: minimal, < 5 domestic sites, 15 entities
F: widespread, >= 5 domestic sites, 52 entities
OSI
Col. 6 (Entities with networks offering X.400 services and which are
connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet).
o: minimal, < 5 domestic sites, 9 entities
O: widespread, >= 5 domestic sites, 17 entities
Possible email connections to Angola, Gambia, Ghana, Malawi, Mongolia
Reunion, Tanzania have not been verified and hence are not included in the
table or in the above totals.
The Antartica Internet connection appears to be intermittently online.
There are Internet hosts in Guam but they do not respond to "ping" and
hence are not included.
----- AF Afghanistan (Democratic Republic of)
----- AL Albania (Republic of)
----- DZ Algeria (People's Democratic Republic of)
----- AS American Samoa
----- AD Andorra (Principality of)
----- AO Angola (People's Republic of)
----- AI Anguilla
-I--- AQ Antarctica
----- AG Antigua and Barbuda
BIUF- AR Argentina (Argentine Republic)
--u-- AM Armenia
----- AW Aruba
-IUF- AU Australia
BIUFO AT Austria (Republic of)
----- AZ Azerbaijan
----- BS Bahamas (Commonwealth of the)
b---- BH Bahrain (State of)
----- BD Bangladesh (People's Republic of)
----- BB Barbados
--UF- BY Belarus
BIUFO BE Belgium (Kingdom of)
----- BZ Belize
----- BJ Benin (People's Republic of)
----- BM Bermuda
----- BT Bhutan (Kingdom of)
--u-- BO Bolivia (Republic of)
----- BA Bosnia-Hercegovina
---f- BW Botswana (Republic of)
----- BV Bouvet Island
BIUFO BR Brazil (Federative Republic of)
----- IO British Indian Ocean Territory
----- BN Brunei Darussalam
b-UF- BG Bulgaria (Republic of)
--u-- BF Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)
----- BI Burundi (Republic of)
----- KH Cambodia
----- CM Cameroon (Republic of)
BIUFO CA Canada
----- CV Cape Verde (Republic of)
----- KY Cayman Islands
----- CF Central African Republic
----- TD Chad (Republic of)
----- IO British Indian Ocean Territory
BIUF- CL Chile (Republic of)
--ufO CN China (People's Republic of)
----- CX Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
----- CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands
b-u-- CO Colombia (Republic of)
----- KM Comoros (Islamic Federal Republic of the)
----- CG Congo (Republic of the)
----- CK Cook Islands
b-u-- CR Costa Rica (Republic of)
--u-- CI Cote d'Ivoire (Republic of)
bI-f- HR Croatia
--U-- CU Cuba (Republic of)
b---- CY Cyprus (Republic of)
BIUF- CS Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak Federal Republic)
bIUFo DK Denmark (Kingdom of)
----- DJ Djibouti (Republic of)
----- DM Dominica (Commonwealth of)
--u-- DO Dominican Republic
----- TP East Timor
bIu-- EC Ecuador (Republic of)
b-u-- EG Egypt (Arab Republic of)
----- SV El Salvador (Republic of)
----- GQ Equatorial Guinea (Republic of)
-IUF- EE Estonia (Republic of)
---f- ET Ethiopia (People's Democratic Republic of)
----- FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
----- FO Faroe Islands
--u-- FJ Fiji (Republic of)
BIUFO FI Finland (Republic of)
BIUFO FR France (French Republic)
--u-- GF French Guiana
--u-- PF French Polynesia
----- TF French Southern Territories
----- GA Gabon (Gabonese Republic)
----- GM Gambia (Republic of the)
---f- GE Georgia (Republic of)
BIUFO DE Germany (Federal Republic of)
----- GH Ghana (Republic of )
----- GI Gibraltar
BIUFo GR Greece (Hellenic Republic)
---f- GL Greenland
----- GD Grenada
--u-- GP Guadeloupe (French Department of)
----- GU Guam
----- GT Guatemala (Republic of)
----- GN Guinea (Republic of)
----- GW Guinea-Bissau (Republic of)
----- GY Guyana (Republic of)
----- HT Haiti (Republic of)
----- HM Heard and McDonald Islands
----- HN Honduras (Republic of)
BI-F- HK Hong Kong (Hisiangkang, Xianggang)
bIUF- HU Hungary (Republic of)
-IUF- IS Iceland (Republic of)
bIUfo IN India (Republic of)
--uF- ID Indonesia (Republic of)
----- IR Iran (Islamic Republic of)
----- IQ Iraq (Republic of)
BIUFo IE Ireland
BIUF- IL Israel (State of)
BIUFO IT Italy (Italian Republic)
--u-- JM Jamaica
BIUF- JP Japan
----- JO Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of)
--U-- KZ Kazakhstan
---f- KE Kenya (Republic of)
----- KI Kiribati (Republic of)
----- KP Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)
BIUF- KR Korea (Republic of )
----- KW Kuwait (State of)
--U-- KG Kyrgyzstan
----- LA Lao People's Democratic Republic
--UF- LV Latvia (Republic of)
----- LB Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)
----- LS Lesotho (Kingdom of)
----- LR Liberia (Republic of)
----- LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
----- LI Liechtenstein (Principality of)
--UFo LT Lithuania
bIuFo LU Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of)
---F- MO Macau (Ao-me'n)
----- MG Madagascar (Democratic Republic of)
----- MW Malawi (Republic of)
b-UF- MY Malaysia
----- MV Maldives (Republic of)
--u-- ML Mali (Republic of)
----- MT Malta (Republic of)
----- MH Marshall Islands (Republic of the)
----- MQ Martinique (French Department of)
----- MR Mauritania (Islamic Republic of)
---f- MU Mauritius
BIuF- MX Mexico (United Mexican States)
----- FM Micronesia (Federated States of)
---F- MD Moldova (Republic of)
----- MC Monaco (Principality of)
----- MN Mongolia (Mongolian People's Republic)
----- MS Montserrat
----- MA Morocco (Kingdom of)
--u-- MZ Mozambique (People's Republic of)
----- MM Myanmar (Union of)
--u-- NA Namibia (Republic of)
----- NR Nauru (Republic of)
----- NP Nepal (Kingdom of)
BIUFO NL Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
----- AN Netherlands Antilles
----- NT Neutral Zone (between Saudi Arabia and Iraq)
--u-- NC New Caledonia
-IuF- NZ New Zealand
--u-- NI Nicaragua (Republic of)
--u-- NE Niger (Republic of the)
----- NG Nigeria (Federal Republic of)
----- NU Niue
----- NF Norfolk Island
----- MP Northern Mariana Islands (Commonwealth of the)
BIUFO NO Norway (Kingdom of)
----- OM Oman (Sultanate of)
--U-- PK Pakistan (Islamic Republic of)
----- PW Palau (Republic of)
---F- PA Panama (Republic of)
--u-- PG Papua New Guinea
--u-- PY Paraguay (Republic of)
--U-- PE Peru (Republic of)
--uF- PH Philippines (Republic of the)
----- PN Pitcairn
BIUF- PL Poland (Republic of)
bIUFO PT Portugal (Portuguese Republic)
BIUF- PR Puerto Rico
----- QA Qatar (State of)
----- RE Re'union (French Department of)
----- RO Romania
b-UF- RU Russian Federation
----- RW Rwanda (Rwandese Republic)
----- SH Saint Helena
----- KN Saint Kitts and Nevis
----- LC Saint Lucia
----- PM Saint Pierre and Miquelon (French Department of)
----- VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
----- WS Samoa (Independent State of)
----- SM San Marino (Republic of)
----- ST Sao Tome and Principe (Democratic Republic of)
B---- SA Saudi Arabia (Kingdom of)
--uf- SN Senegal (Republic of)
--u-- SC Seychelles (Republic of)
----- SL Sierra Leone (Republic of)
bIuF- SG Singapore (Republic of)
bI-FO SI Slovenia
----- SB Solomon Islands
----- SO Somalia (Somali Democratic Republic)
-IUFo ZA South Africa (Republic of)
BIUFO ES Spain (Kingdom of)
--U-- LK Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic of)
----- SD Sudan (Democratic Republic of the)
--u-- SR Suriname (Republic of)
----- SJ Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
----- SZ Swaziland (Kingdom of)
BIUFo SE Sweden (Kingdom of)
BIUFO CH Switzerland (Swiss Confederation)
----- SY Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)
BIuF- TW Taiwan, Province of China
--u-- TJ Tajikistan
----- TZ Tanzania (United Republic of)
-IuF- TH Thailand (Kingdom of)
--u-- TG Togo (Togolese Republic)
----- TK Tokelau
----- TO Tonga (Kingdom of)
--u-- TT Trinidad and Tobago (Republic of)
bIu-o TN Tunisia
B--f- TR Turkey (Republic of)
----- TM Turkmenistan
----- TC Turks and Caicos Islands
----- TV Tuvalu
---f- UG Uganda (Republic of)
--UF- UA Ukraine
----- AE United Arab Emirates
bIUFO GB United Kingdom (United Kingdom of GB and Northern Ireland)
BIUFO US United States (United States of America)
----- UM United States Minor Outlying Islands
b-U-- UY Uruguay (Eastern Republic of)
--U-- UZ Uzbekistan
--u-- VU Vanuatu (Republic of, formerly New Hebrides)
----- VA Vatican City State (Holy See)
-IU-- VE Venezuela (Republic of)
----- VN Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)
----- VG Virgin Islands (British)
---f- VI Virgin Islands (U.S.)
----- WF Wallis and Futuna Islands
----- EH Western Sahara
----- YE Yemen (Republic of)
----- YU Yugoslavia (Socialist Federal Republic of)
----- ZR Zaire (Republic of)
---f- ZM Zambia (Republic of)
--uf- ZW Zimbabwe (Republic of)
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Date: Thu Apr 15 16:39:04 -0500 1993
From:
[email protected] ("Learned Information Ltd." )
Subject: File 2--17th Intl. Online Information Meeting (collaboration)
** ONLINE INFORMATION 93 **
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7 - 9 December 1993
Olympia 2, London, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
Suggested themes for the 17th International Online Information Meeting
are set out below - a mixture of exciting up-and-coming developments,
techniques and technologies in both established areas as well as newer ones.
Of course, it goes without saying that papers on other topics related to
the overall Online and CD-ROM conference and exhibition (eg database design
and evaluation, search strategies, marketing of information products, CD-ROM
utilization etc) will be equally acceptable.
We are also seeking suitable demonstrative technologies e.g. - the Internet,
creating your own CD-ROMs, et.all.
Suggested Themes:
- Online and Internet;
- Multimedia solutions;
- Image handling;
- Virtual reality;
- New methods of information delivery;
- Full full-text (ie the inclusion of graphs, chemical structures, tables,
diagrams and pictures as well as text);
- Metadatabases (ie information systems which describe other information
systems and resources);
- Managing online and CD-ROM.
This year we also anticipate having panels which will include a mix of
users, suppliers and vendors discussing such current topics as: CD-ROM
networking experience; Can we use all the databases and CD-ROMs we have
already or do we need still more? Where do we go from here with online?
Submit an abstract of 300 words to the address below for consideration.
You will then be contacted about writing a full paper. All full papers have
a deadline of 9 July 1993.
For further information contact:
The Conference Department
Learned Information
Woodside
Hinksey Hill
Oxford, OX1 5AU, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)865 730275
Fax: +44 (0)865 736354
Internet:
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 22:38:53 GMT
From:
[email protected] (1016/2EF221 )
Subject: File 3--Disponibilites des sources en C pour Macintosh de PGP v2.2
Repost from:
[email protected]
*** SOURCE code to Macintosh PGP 2.2 now available via anonymous FTP ***
FTP netcom.com
CD pub/grady
MGET MacPGP2.2src.sea.hqx
MGET MacPGP2.2srcSIGNATURE
Convert to a Compact Pro self-extracting archive with BinHex 4.0.
If appropriate, check the digital signature of the .hqx file with your copy
of PGP. (Non-Macintosh users wishing to check the digital signature please
note that 'CR' denotes the end-of-line on a Macintosh, not 'LF' or 'CRLF'.)
For the purposes of the ITAR act, this 'unclassified technical documenta-
tion' is hereby released into the public domain. (However no representation
is made as to copyright or other commercial rights that may exist in this
package.)
Full source code, Symantec THINK C 5.0.4 projects and full user documenta-
tion is included for both 68020 and 68000 versions of Pretty Good Privacy, a
strong public key encryption and digital signature application using the RSA
algorithm patented in the United States and the IDEA cipher patented in
Switzerland.
No executables are included.
Executables are available via anonymous FTP from:
* leif.thep.lu.se (Sweden)
* night.nig.ac.jp (Japan)
* van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Canada)
* soda.berkeley.edu (P.R. of Berkeley)
* src.doc.ic.ac.uk (United Kingdom)
* ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Italy)
* plaza.aarnet.edu.au (Australia)
* nic.funet.fi (Finland)
Other's public keys are available from anonymous server sites:
(Send message subject "help" for more information.)
Internet sites:
*
[email protected]
Michael Graff
[email protected]
FTP: tbird.cc.iastate.edu:/usr/explorer/public-keys.pgp
*
[email protected]
Derek Atkins
[email protected]
FTP: toxicwaste.mit.edu:/pub/keys/public-keys.pgp
*
[email protected]
John Perry
[email protected]
FTP: phil.utmb.edu:/pub/pgp/public-keys.pgp
*
[email protected]
Mark Turner
[email protected]
FTP: ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/pgp/pubring.pgp
UUCP site:
*
[email protected]
John Perry
[email protected]
The executable application built from these sources has NOT been licensed by
RSA Data Security, Inc. nor has the RSA public key algorithm or the IDEA
block cipher algorithm been approved by the National Security Agency.
This unclassified technical documentation is made available for EDUCATIONAL
USE ONLY; possession, distribution, or use of an executable binary built
from this source may be a civil or criminal offense.
Suggested improvements, bugs, or comments should be directly posted to
alt.security.pgp or to the principal developers listed among the source
documents. General questions and comments about public key cryptography or
the IDEA cipher may be posted to alt.security.pgp or to the sci.crypt Usenet
groups.
--
[email protected] 2EF221 / 15 E2 AD D3 D1 C6 F3 FC 58 AC F7 3D 4F 01 1E 2F
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Date: Wed Jan 20 15:49:42 EST 1993
From:
[email protected] (Matt Fante )
Subject: File 4--Clef publique PGP v2.1
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PGP 2.1 and RIPEM Public Keys Available Upon Request
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Date: Mon Apr 5 23:41:04 -0500 1993
From: LUX%
[email protected] (Harald Lux )
Subject: File 6--Publication scolaire de e-journaux (these)
The Role of Publishers in the Age of Electronically
Published Scholarly Journals
- Current Situation and Recommendation -
Objective:
==========
Analysing the publication process of electronic journals
shows that the functions of the publisher are often taken
over by other participants of the publication chain. Aim
of this diploma thesis is to investigate which functions
publishers can hold in the age of electronically
published scholarly journals under economic aspects. The
main focus lies on the distribution via networks. Other
electronic forms are seen only as complementary.
The general functions of publishers, as found in the
literature, are the basis for the representation of the
current situation of publishing scholarly journals. This
is followed by a separate analysis of the publisher's
functions which can be found by electronically published
scholarly journals. Each function will be investigated
with regard to its economic relevance. Results should be
rated recommendations with consideration of possible
problems. The thesis concludes with a consolidated
analysis of the isolated recommendations.
Structure:
==========
1 Foundation
1.1 Electronic Publishing
1.2 Publishers and their Functions
1.2.1 Primary Functions
1.2.1.1 Selection
1.2.1.2 Financing
1.2.1.3 Production
1.2.1.4 Distribution
1.2.2 Complementary Functions
2 Scholarly Journals Today
2.1 Traditional Publication
2.1.1 (Examples)
2.1.2 Functions of the Publisher
2.2 Electronic Publication
2.2.1 Reasons
2.2.2 (Examples)
2.2.3 Functions of the Publisher
3 Possibilities for Publishers in the Age of Electronically
Published Scholarly Journals
3.1 Separated Analysis
3.1.1 Primary Functions
3.1.1.1 Selection
3.1.1.2 Financing
3.1.1.3 Production
3.1.1.4 Distribution
3.1.2 Complementary Functions
3.2 Consolidated Analysis
--
Harald Lux
[email protected]
Moischter Str. 45
[email protected]
W-3550 Marburg 7 CIS: 100024,3231
Germany Tel.: +49 228 461853
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Date: Sun Apr 11 14:08:00 -0600 1993
From:
[email protected] ("Rob Slade, DECrypt Editor, VARUG )
Subject: File 6--Critique de "Rogue Programs", L. Hoffman, ed.
Copyright: Robert M. Slade, 1993
_Rogue Programs: Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses_
Ed. Lance J. Hoffman
1990, 0-442-00454-0
Van Nostrand Reinhold
c/o Nelson Canada
1120 Birchmont Road
Scarborough, Ontario M1K 5G4
Phone: 416-752-9100
Fax: 416-752-9646
Reading the list of contributors to this work was rather like "old home
week" at VIRUS-L. The introduction states that the book arose from
Hoffman's frustration over the lack of a suitable text for a virus seminar
and that the seminar participants compiled the material from available
sources. Even one of the seminar participants, Chris Feudo, has recently
released a computer virus handbook.
Hoffman's "big iron" bias shows through occasionally in his lack of
distinction between "network" and "micro" viral programs (someone with a
$1000 computer "within days can be writing viruses that attempt to break
into world-wide networks") and insists upon destructive and "service denial"
capabilities when defining a virus. Overall, however, he tries to present a
balanced and realistic view of the virus situation.
The essays contained in the book are grouped into five sections. The
distinctives between the sections are somewhat clearer than with Denning's
"Computers Under Attack". The overall design of the book makes a lot of
sense as a textbook (its primary purpose, after all), but may be less lucid
to the home or business user looking for specific direction on protection of
their system.
The first section contains papers that attempt to look at the broad overview
of viral type programs. Although this book is primarily intended as a text
in computer security courses (presumably at the university level), one still
feels the lack of an initial concise and clear statement of what viral
programs are today. This desire may be unrealistic: the majority of the
works contained in the book were prepared, at least in initial form, prior
to 1990. By the time the book was published, however, a larger view of the
virus situation should have been possible. Still, as introduction and
background material within the context of a virus related course, these
papers are all of significant value.
The second part relates to social and legal topics. The current state of
(American) law figures heavily in this section. The discussion of ethics
is quite limited. Karen Forcht's article on the subject is very terse,
seemingly being only a report of various surveys. (The most interestingly
point I found in it was the contention, by CEOs, that ethics should be
taught in the classroom, rather than on the job, which displays either a
surprising confidence in the school system, or a definite unwillingness to
face the issue themselves.)
Parts three and four separate the study of viral programs into the realms of
personal (micro) computers and "network" situations. This distinction is
important, and it is heartening to see it made here. The opening essay in
the micro section, by Hoffman and Brad Stubbs, attempts to walk the line
between giving information to the user who needs it without giving too much
assistance to virus-writer-wannabes. In my own view it falls somewhat short
in this, being perhaps more technical than an introductory article warrants.
However, it is a good compilation of the technical background to viral
programs in the MS-DOS environment. (The micro section closes on a slightly
worse note, with the PC Magazine reviews that are starting to become
somewhat infamous in the virus research community.)
The network virus section contains the two major "dissections" of the
Internet Worm. Surprisingly, however, none of the other major network
incidents, such as the CHRISTMA EXEC and the "WANK" worm, are mentioned.
Some of the other papers in this section might have more general application
to the virus problem overall, such as studies into cryptographic
authentication. Others, such as an exploration of viral programs in
"electronic warfare" seem to be "blue sky" exscursions with very little
relation to reality.
The final section is entitled "Emerging Theory of Computer Viruses". It
contains two articles by Fred Cohen, and one by Leonard Ableman reporting
Fred's findings. With all due respect to Dr. Cohen, there might be room for
works by other theoreticians here.
As a textbook, this tome contains a diverse range of material well suited to
a seminar on viral programs. While some of the material is becoming dated,
and some of the points of view are oversimplified, I have not yet found
another book as well surited for raising topics for discussion. The one
major flaw is the lack of balance and opposition to some of the wilder
flights of fancy. It would be well to have someone point out that the human
immune system cannot fully be used as an analogy of computer virus defence,
or to point out the difficulties involved in transmitting a virus from a
radio to a fighter aircraft to a military command centre. In the classroom,
of course, this job belongs to the instructor.
Those looking for a reference for protection against viral programs may find
this book to be unsuitable. It does, however, have a place as background
material for those large firms in the process of planning overall corporate
data security strategy. Again, it should be used to generate discussion on
some issues which other "how to" books do not yet address.
(Post scriptum: Lance Hoffman, in responding to the initial draft of this
review, has been most gracious. He has also acknowledged the shortcomings
of the current version of the book. There are plans for a new version,
which may be released some time in 1994. Hopefully the few gaps in the
current work will be covered in that.)
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