Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...
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Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

MacPilot lets you master your Mac with over 1,200 tweaks and optimizations

Macs are powerful, but many users only scratch the surface of what their computers can do. MacPilot unlocks over 1,200 ...

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

UNIX V4, the first ever version of the UNIX operating system in which the kernel was written in the then-new C programming ...

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...