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by nzrf 1520 days ago
Remember my time in the us navy in the late 90s and 00’ using paper tape for a few things including loading crypto. I can’t exactly remember what also we used it for, but was strange to think of even then and often now wonder if paper tape still exists in navy. Plus side ii is pretty easy to destroy and also not impacted by any sort of emp if there was to be one.

Tape reader here http://www.prc68.com/I/CryptoM.shtml#KOI-18 and with some other fun devices like kyk-13

Thanks for post now I’m wondering what the sister project is to write paper tape as easy to store my own crypto keys.

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I did the same in the Norwegian navy!