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New evidence note: Ellis’s January 1970 theoretical encryption report, with source and date limitations. This adds one editorial evidence entry; it is not a preserved full text.
The unified search includes 18,790 entries. The October research release contributes 260 of those entries; these are catalog records and discovery leads, not 260 preserved works or complete source archives.
- 28 historical tools and their predecessors — AOL chat add-ons, programming utilities and earlier networking tools, with attribution, date uncertainty and contextual sources. No binaries hosted.
- 42 source-discovery leads — historical archives, telephone engineering collections and security mailing lists. Evidence limits and rights status distinguish a lead from an acquired corpus.
- Browse all 260 October research additions — a crawlable list spanning eight collections, with links to individual records and their provenance.
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