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Great article, great battle.
Lucky are the ones who have someone to teach them this stuff. If you have to find it out yourself it is an endless pain.
I think I could handle the Great Old Ones. But C++, never again.
As far as I recall the Adobe PDF encryption was also just some XOR with a simple passphrase. Got him into serious trouble.
And WTH is 'virtually uncrackable'?
Hunchentoot has been updated, it is just maintained by somebody else now AFAIK ( https://github.com/edicl/hunchentoot/downloads ). I do remember that there was a version (1.2?) that had some backward compatibility problems and that was last year.
Try quicklisp ( http://www.quicklisp.org/ ) for all your lib needs, it is a nice lib repository and it is very up to date (though still beta).