Connected Corporation announced DataSafe, a Mac/Windows web based backup service. $14.95/Month for 50MB, archival CD-ROM for $24.95 each. Offers passwords and DES encryption. Storage is on 2 mirrored sites. Phone # (508) 270-0035, http://www.connected.com/.

From thier site:

------- Security DataSafe uses the federally approved Data Encryption Standard (DES) with a 56-bit key to encrypt all of your data before it leaves your PC. This level of encryption is so powerful, it is not permitted to be exported outside of the United States (we use a different, but similarly powerful encryption scheme for our international customers). You have the option to choose your own encryption password, which is never transferred to us over the modem. In this way, no one but you can read your data - not when it is in transfer to us, nor when it is being stored in encrypted format at our secure operations centers. When this level of encryption is combined with the fact that we only transmit the portions of each file that change every day, not the entire file, the chances that anyone will be able to read or make use of your data as it travels over the network are practically eliminated. DataSafe uses the TCP/IP communications protocol for both its private dial-up network and Internet-based services. -------- I really like the idea of distributed, encrypted backups, but this strikes me as the kind of thing that has the potential to get a lot of gullible people in trouble. Hopefully someone offshore with proven security and a wider choice of algorithms will compete... (I don't know if Connected is good at security, so this shouldn't be construed as a swipe at them. Does anyone know anything about them?) -j -- The signal is the noise. ____________________________________________________________________ Jamie Lawrence mailto:jal@cyborganic.net mailto:foodie@netcom.com