Re: Encrypting ZIP disks
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "David E. Smith" <dsmith@prairienet.org> writes:
7. Secure sensitive files. To keep sensitive or confidential information safe, store it on a Zip disk and use your Zip Tools software to assign a password that must be used in order to read from or write to the disk. At work, you can protect sensitive information such as personnel files, company directories, and product plans and designs. At home, you can secure personal information such as tax records, budgets, and computerized checkbooks.
FWIW (not much), Iomega claims that it can't recover the data on a password-protected disk. However, they do export those things, so I doubt it's strong. Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMumJOskz/YzIV3P5AQHLZAL+MJhEH/aCbB9BX5R4nY4BIRBOGZw8socG 39D0q+UT8sS3YsMaeL6GqfEo04lsnQwAUWtI0I8/FcqYlWVGxwsOAboK3BZmJz40 y3/GmUz5dUpz0PctKbGYYQj/w6pbt/6z =mv67 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Paul Kocher announced that he has cracked it, and can recover data quickly. He is not publishing details of the break. Adam Jeremiah A Blatz wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. | "David E. Smith" <dsmith@prairienet.org> writes: | > 7. Secure sensitive files. | > To keep sensitive or confidential information safe, store it | > on a Zip disk and use your Zip Tools software to assign a | > password that must be used in order to read from or write to | > the disk. At work, you can protect sensitive information | > such as personnel files, company directories, and product | > plans and designs. At home, you can secure personal | > information such as tax records, budgets, and computerized | > checkbooks. | | FWIW (not much), Iomega claims that it can't recover the data on a | password-protected disk. However, they do export those things, so I | doubt it's strong. | | Jer | | "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew | why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -- End of PGP signed section. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
"David E. Smith" <dsmith@prairienet.org> writes:
7. Secure sensitive files. To keep sensitive or confidential information safe, store it on a Zip disk and use your Zip Tools software to assign a password that must be used in order to read from or write to the disk. At work, you can protect sensitive information such as personnel files, company directories, and product plans and designs. At home, you can secure personal information such as tax records, budgets, and computerized checkbooks.
FWIW (not much), Iomega claims that it can't recover the data on a password-protected disk. However, they do export those things, so I doubt it's strong.
Well, I think one way to find out is to create 2 identical zip disks and encrypt them with different passwords. Then do sector by sector compare and see where the beast is hiding at :) Leo.
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