Alena opened it. It was a detailed, step-by-step log of a failed experiment. The final entry read:
Alena held her breath. She typed the password: RCBB2007 Meg Rcbb.rar
The first few bytes read: 52 61 72 21 1A 07 . This was correct; it was a genuine RAR archive, version 5. But the next bytes held the encrypted filename header. It was locked. Alena opened it
The RAR decompressed.
A final idea: Could the spaces be wrong? What if it was MegRcbb ? She said it aloud: "Meg-are-see-bee-bee." It sounded like a name. "Meg R. C. B. B." She typed the password: RCBB2007 The first few
She typed it into a personnel database of the old institute: "Margaret R. Chen-Blackburn." There she was: Dr. Margaret R. Chen-Blackburn, lead researcher in nano-encryption. Died in 2009. Her lab nickname? "Meg RCBB" – her initials.